cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/2881638
The largest piracy community is hosted over at !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
lemmy.world has blocked it. It appears to have also blocked !piracy@lemmy.ml.
If this is a problem for you, I’d suggest migrating accounts using LASIM to an instance that doesn’t block it (such as lemm.ee).
edit:
An official announcement has been made:
Did you read the LW TOS? It’s the first rule.
The problem is this is still pretty vague. The communities that were blocked weren’t sharing copyrighted material, but resources for finding and sharing said material. You might think this is being overly literal but I’m pretty sure it’s the same loophole that allows reddit to host r/piracy without getting into legal trouble.
On the other hand, if we take this rule at face value it could be interpreted as not allowing the sharing of any kind of content without the express permission of the creators. This could include photographs, artwork, videos, and maybe more.
So it’s not an issue of people being lazy or ignorant, but overly broad/vague rules
I won’t claim to be an expert in EU laws, but I know they have strong copyright laws in place that could be a legal issue for LW.
That would require people to read what they sign up for
To be fair, CoC was recently updated. It was originally pointing to mastodon.world/about which is a little vague on rule 1.