cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/2881638
The largest piracy community is hosted over at [email protected]
lemmy.world has blocked it. It appears to have also blocked [email protected].
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:
I love all the salty comments about having to move. Its piracy, it will always be removed if it becomes too popular. This is how it has always been and always will be. No one is obligated to feed you free shit without any effort on your part. They take one place down and you move on. Either get used to it or start paying for services.
Why does no one understand that the admins don’t want the instance to be shut down and they don’t want to be arrested???
I am very pro-piracy, but I would never host a piracy community because I don’t want to be freaking jailed. Governments view those that host piracy and piracy communities much more harshly than random participants.
Is everyone on this website 12 years old and not understanding of real world consequences???
Fucking amen. It sucks but it’s a fact of life. LW is covering their asses like any of us would
Because from everything I’ve seen, those communities did not do ANYTHING illegal. They talked about software that can be used that way, but if we go by that measure, discussing any Fediverse software is illegal, because you could use that to host illegal content.
They just should shut down their instance if they can’t run it without defederation excessively, blocking communities and even using a word filter.
I don’t understand why everyone is so shocked they did it. Hosting information on pirating stuff is a lightning rod for lawsuits and Lemmy.world is large enough to actually get noticed.
I’m only surprised it took them that long to block it.
BBS to IRC to P2P to torrent with all manner of shady websites and other crap thrown in. That’s just in my Internet life from 2002. I never used BBS but I was aware of them. Registering a new account is nothing compared to how much harder it used to be pirating stuff.
Exactly. If you’re someone who engages in piracy, you should be quite used to putting in this type of effort.
Also surprised to read the whining about the whining.
“Without any effort on your part”
Yeah you’re right, as a world citizen we all get automatically created accounts for all Lemmy instances /s
yeah like… WTF you gonna try to do this on a major social media site… how stupid is that shit… Go to IRC, fools.