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this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2023
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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