• @Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    reddit.com is Reddit.Inc. with investors and lawyers and content curators and admins galore etc.

    Lemmy.world is idk some guy named ruud in a basement with servers or something idk. The point is they aren’t equivalent resource pools to protect them from legal issues.

    • Free Palestine 🇵🇸
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      11 year ago

      Right, but AFAIK he hasn’t even received any legal complaints. He could have done nothing, and only defederate when some shitty media company complains.

      • @ZodiacSF1969@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        I can’t blame him for wanting to avoid legal issues before it gets to the point he is receiving notices, C&Ds and law suits. That can get very expensive, very fast.

        It’s not like it’s hard to make an account on another instance to look at piracy related content.

        • Free Palestine 🇵🇸
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          11 year ago

          It’s not like it’s hard to make an account on another instance to look at piracy related content.

          That’s right, but lemmy.world claims to be an instance for anyone, which it isn’t anymore. It’s not neutral anymore.

          I can’t blame him for wanting to avoid legal issues before it gets to the point he is receiving notices, C&Ds and law suits. That can get very expensive, very fast.

          It’s not like you immediately get sued, you first get a DMCA takedown notice. At that point, he could just defederate and everything would be fine.

        • Free Palestine 🇵🇸
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          11 year ago

          Yeah, I don’t want to hate on lemmy.world for no reasons, but the things I described earlier turned that instance into a shit show pretty quickly. Which is unfortunate.