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    • AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      It’s IMO an existential threat for lemmy.world. Sure, a big corporation could handle it, but here we’re talking about an instance which will be forced to shut down if copyright lawyers knock at the admins’ doors. Federation is a double-edged sword, it means technically you also host all the content that’s being published on instances that are federated with you, so in particular if piracy communities don’t do a good enough job cleaning up lemmy.world will be liable for that content since it will be physically on this server too.

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          1 year ago

          They did it to avoid legal troubles, they would not get in one yet but almost certainly in the future

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            Which doesn’t make sense. If anything you’ll get hit with a DMCA and just ban the communities then. Why start trouble now when there isn’t any?

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                And what did Nintendo do? DMCA people? Yes, thats what they did. A DMCA is a piece of paper that says “remove x shit right now”. It doesn’t mean anything else, its a promise of consequence. The Pirate Bay is in no way similar. Are we hosting content links that directly link to torrents? No? Cool.