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  • leraje@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    11 months ago

    Might be worth remembering here that Lemmy instances, including .world are hosted by regular people. Not massive multinational companies worth billions who can engage the best legal talent around.

    If Hollywood comes after a Lemmy instance, Holywood have a huge legal team and endless money. The Lemmy instance has some guy. They could quite literally destroy a persons life. With that in mind, I don’t blame any instance owners for erring on the side of taking a stance that won’t put them in the legal firing line.

    • RadButNotAChad@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      11 months ago

      This is a well reasoned answer. If this were my instance I would also ban communities linking to pirated software. A single lawsuit and lawyer bill for a regular guy, and that can fuck your life up all because you tried to run a decent community. I have a username I use for browsing lemmynsfw, I’ll make one for browsing piracy related things too.

      • agent_flounder@lemmy.oneEnglish
        0·
        11 months ago

        Best bet I think is to set up a non-profit limited liability type of company. Then at least there is a good chance the individual doesn’t get fucked. (Ymmv depending on legal jurisdiction of course)

        • AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          You still need expensive lawyers to defend yourself. Registering a LLC isn’t a get out of jail free card and corporations don’t shield you from personal criminal liability (unless you’re rich, see comment about expensive lawyers).

      • SRo@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        No. .world is just afraid of everything. Better they shut down their instance.