This has happened once before and they reversed it. But they said this last time too:

The discussions that have happened in various threads on Lemmy make it very clear that removing the communites before we announced our intent to remove them is not the level of transparency the community expects, and that as stewards of this community we need to be extremely transparent before we do this again in the future as well as make sure that we get feedback around what the planned changes are, because lemmy.world is yours as much as it is ours.

https://lemmy.world/post/3234363

  • @[email protected]
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    Seems quite reasonable to remove illegal communities given how Lemmy works with the caching of all content locally. There is just a significant legal risk for the instance operators involved here.

    • kbal
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      Talking about piracy on lemmy is still not illegal, in most places.

    • @[email protected]
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      9 months ago

      Merely discussing piracy is not a crime. And that’s all that happens in that community

      • @[email protected]
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        It depends on the kind of discussion. Incentivizing other people to break the law is illegal in most places

        • Amerikan Pharaoh
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          59 months ago

          Then arrest the execs making those incentives; not the consumers taking and distributing notes on them.

      • Adam
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        369 months ago

        If buying isn’t owning then piracy isn’t stealing.

        • just another devA
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          119 months ago

          Oooh, if we’re oversimplifying things, I got another one:

          If you truly think ip law can be explained in a single sentence, you’re an idiot.

          • @[email protected]
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            119 months ago

            That saying isn’t trying to explain all of IP law. It’s referring to products where there is no way to buy a copy you have permanent possession of. There’s a reason you don’t see the same fervor around pirating books.

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            Spoken like someone who either can’t tell IP law is one of the main mechanics by which the white supremacist “rules-based world order” maintains its strangulatory, thieving grip on the world; or someone who relishes in that fact. Either way, unworthy of bending an ear to. “Those who do no research deserve no voice.”

            • just another devA
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              79 months ago

              Me: ip law is complicated.

              You: you’re wrong, it’s used for (even more things).

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                Wrong. My point is it is not worth regarding because it is an unjust ‘legal’ mechanic. That which is unjust demands breaching; such is the core of civil disobedience. Hence why I find your trying to quibble about how complicated it is like it even deserves heeding, or like you even deserve the point of view you’re trying to push so fuckin funny.

                • just another devA
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                  59 months ago

                  Glad to have amused you then. Hope you won’t take it too seriously, I certainly won’t.

            • BraveSirZaphod
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              The funny thing about Lemmygrad people is that you could tell me that this comment was an intentional caricature and it’d seem just as likely as it being genuine.

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                And the funny thing about kbin people is you strut around like you’re some kind of enlightened Top Mind apart from the rest of the nazi bars and radlib echo chambers ActivityPub graciously lends their backending to when you’re really no different from the rest of the hive.

      • @[email protected]
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        159 months ago

        Whether or not it’s moral or ethical is separate from it being legal, and it’s definitely illegal (in the US).

        • jherazob
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          139 months ago

          But it’s not, they’re not doing actual piracy there, they’re talking about it, and that’s very much not illegal

          • @[email protected]
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            59 months ago

            Tell that to the person I replied to, not me, because they didn’t say anything about talking about piracy.

      • Red Army Dog Cooper
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        Look, I agree with the feeling behind what you are saying, However its important to remember Morality is not the same as Legality, and while they can sometimes overlap they are difrent cosepts, Piricy is moral, but not legal. If you ask me, it is A ok to do somthing that is moral but illegal

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        Let me know when you get your piracy instance set up, and where it is and whether I can go there and do whatever I want on it

    • Amerikan Pharaoh
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      Wannabe capitalist-tier commenting; tfu. Your breath reeks of Oxford polish and your brain is poisoned by vain, childish notions of ‘owning’ ideas like there’s just an infinite supply of those under the sun.

    • sadreality
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      89 months ago

      How do you define “illegal community”

      Asking for a friend