• Clbull@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I know, right? How dare they stop us from stealing movies and computer games!

    100% understand why Lemmy World did this. Piracy opens the floodgates for legal trouble and is largely the reason why the piracy community over on Reddit is probably one of the most sanitized, locked-down and censored parts of the site.

    Would you want a non-profit being sued to oblivion because somebody posted torrent links?

    • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      The piracy community already bans direct piracy links. The rules aren’t that much different from the subreddit, so there’s

      This whole debacle with lemmy.world is mainly from the admins making a dumb decision.

      I know, right? How dare they stop us from stealing movies and computer games!

      Oh no, the scummy AAA punishers are going to make marginally less profit this quarter! Won’t someone please think of the corporations!?

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      1 year ago

      i hate seeing this downvoted. people need to grow a brain.