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Could this become a "Caring is Sharing" sub, just like the old days (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For too long imo, piracy had become a "grab it all" environment. The old "Caring is Sharing" mantra seems to have disappeared. So maybe, this Lemmy could revert back 20-30 years to become a real sharing community. IDK.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wonder if this has a shot if we use something like lemmy. Doesn’t that mean there isn’t a a major company to answer to in the first place?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sure, but it doesn't mean it won't cause problems for our kind admin, Ernest. Eventually, someone will probably make it troublesome enough for him to reconsider.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'd prefer it to be a resource educating and assisting people to the best options to go to than to actually be sharing direct file links or anything like that. There's other sites that are handling that side.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fully agree, even though Lemmy is decentralised, each instance is still hosted by a hosting provider and is subject to DMCA and other enforcement actions like any other website. That's why we don't allow specific file requests and direct downloads etc. If we went that route, it wouldn't be long before we were shut down, then have to start from scratch every few months, which wouldn't be sustainable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I should probably take down the ROMs I uploaded, then?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In this instance, no direct download links are allowed, but can't speak for other instance - that's up to them. You can always PM links to people, or link to another landing page elesewhere like 1337x.to just to offer us some protection from DMCAs. We are pro-piracy after all, but this space is for chatting about it rather than file sharing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I see... Alright then. I'll go take care of that.