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this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2023
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Wait. What?
Oh do I have to explain the meme? 🤦♂️
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lemmy.world has been down very frequently, possibly due to DDoS attacks, and when a site that's using Cloudflare is down, it displays a code 522 (sometimes it's a 502, 503 or some variation).Yesterday, (or the day before, honestly can't remember) lemmy.world blocked piracy communities at the request of one user (who appears to be some far-right asshole), so many pirates are going to be cheering at lemmy.world's frequent downtime.
Reminder: Although copyright infringement is unlawful in many countries, discussion of copyright infringement is usually considered protected free speech in many countries, so piracy communities are technically legal, as long as they don't link directly to piracy content.
They must be children if they can't understand that Lemmy can't afford to take on the movie industry in court.
Lemmy.world (not all of Lemmy) wasn't breaking any laws.
They're volunteers running the instance personally, not a corporation with a legal team who can advise them how to best handle piracy related communities without being sued. Especially since their instance has to cache content from instances they federate with, it's hard to blame them for being overly cautious with piracy communities on instances out of their control to avoid being sued by litigation happy media corporations