Well, they can just open it on another instance. This is the beauty of Lemmy and the Fediverse.

Yay Lemmy.world, you kicked yourself in the dick, congrats.

While I generally have a positive view of digital piracy (digital archiving), this is ultimately going to happen to any social media site after it gets big enough, it should be seen as a good thing for Lemmy (growing pains). Either a site gets in trouble and/or shut down for opening itself up to piracy or it proactively bans piracy. Unless Lemmy gets full-time staff to actively moderate and keep an eye out for pirated content in a community dedicated to piracy. It probably couldn’t handle such controversial community that might bring the ire of the Entertainment Industrial Complex on them.

Digital Piracy will continue and we’ll likely see them spin up their own “Pirate Bay” instance somewhere else. Lemmy.world will almost certainly defederate from them, but they’ll be around to those that know where to look, just like pirated content in general.

Looks like I need a 5th login.

I am so glad you can just avoid an instance moderated by clowns and enjoy the full experience with the fediverse.

Wow fuck that.

I'm going to home on lemmy.today or lemmy.sdf.org.

To be fair, I don't know where world is hosted by at least according to my local law here they'd be right: linking to piracy can get you in trouble.

Now usually you can safely ignore this still, sure. Unless you're large. And with world being so big I could see them being the very first target someone would drag in front of a court if they are in a place where such laws exist. It sounds stupid, but I can understand why the devs would not want to go through that.

Looks politically motivated. Has Piraattipuolue commented?

The owners of the largest instance on Lemmy don't want to potentially get into legal trouble.

Lemmy.world users: "omg wut about muh illegal downloads".

That's one way to tell people to switch instances before it's too late. Thanks for making this public.

Welp, time to move to another instance