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Is there a reason why the piracy scene here is so dead? (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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[–] 211 points 6 months ago (11 children)

On lemmy.world it is dead, you need to pop over to DB0 or ml.

The world admins have the stance that they don't want to host or directly link to piracy content because of the legal trouble it may bring as it's hosted in the Netherlands and the piracy rules are different here.

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  • [+] [S] 59 points 6 months ago (1 child)
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  • [–] 39 points 6 months ago*

    After it got banned the first time it got unbanned after the drama with the promise of more transparency and communication from the LW team. Then some months later someone allegedly uninformed (was that a new admin or smth?) banned it again without transparency and communication causing another drama but this time they sticked with the ban for good. At least that's how I remember it going. If you dig into the old posts you will get a more accurate timeline.

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  • [–] 25 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    NL the world capital of usenet? That NL?

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  • [–] 29 points 6 months ago

    That NL, we also have quite a few banned domains here. Basically copyright organisations like Brein will sue everyone they can get away with. Unfortunately they have been succesfull on multiple occasions, mostly because the other party won't show up in court and they win by default. Another thing they do is sue one of the large ISP's for facilitating copyright infringement to get them to block sites like torrent sites. If the judge rules in their favor, then all Dutch ISP's have to abide by the ruling.

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  • [–] 20 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    This is news to me so thanks for the heads up.

    I'm awaiting my db0 approval now.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    yaarrrr matey! i did the same when I learned of .worlds nonsense on this

    i don't even really interact with the piracy comm but who tf do you think you are blocking my access to it? i wanna say they have no right but they do so that's why I took my ball and went to play with the anarchists :)

    read bread book

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Good torrent for Petr Kropotkin's "the conquest of bread"?

    That honestly was my favorite thing to do. Torrent and seed public domain and foss things like books and isos. It led to a couple false cease and dissets which was really funny telling them they were wrong.

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