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[–] SMITHandWESSON@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

pirates are going to be cheering at lemmy.world's frequent downtime.

They must be children if they can't understand that Lemmy can't afford to take on the movie industry in court.

[–] explodicle@local106.com 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy.world (not all of Lemmy) wasn't breaking any laws.

[–] Kes@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

They're volunteers running the instance personally, not a corporation with a legal team who can advise them how to best handle piracy related communities without being sued. Especially since their instance has to cache content from instances they federate with, it's hard to blame them for being overly cautious with piracy communities on instances out of their control to avoid being sued by litigation happy media corporations