• Otherbarry@lemmy.zip
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      Not only that, it was a brand new account on a totally different Lemmy instance that demanded lemmy.world admins remove piracy related communities.

      Honestly it seems like lemmy.world admins were trolled by some random throwaway account and took the bait.

      EDIT: The post in question in case others haven’t seen it https://lemmy.world/post/3175920, a new account from lemm.ee makes their first & only post in lemmy.world demanding that they defederate & remove anything piracy related.

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      True but it hosted in Germany. That country does not take it easy on piracy…

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        Even the German specific Lemmy instances like https://feddit.de do not block the piracy discussion communities.

        The piracy blocking stuff seems like something lemmy.world admins decided to do based on a troll from another instance demanding it.

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      That user can sue if they don’t obey, in most jurisdictions. If it comes that far, it’s too late.

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        Why would the user be able to sue? Unless they thought their work was being infringed (in which case why they wouldn’t send a dmca?) I don’t see what possible standing they’d have.