Just my uninformed personal opinion, but the way I see it is that considering Lemmy isn’t a corporation and isn’t focused on ad revenue, I doubt we’ll see the same tight strangulation of rules like we see on other sites. Reddit was a far more free platform in the early days, but once investors and capital growth entered the mix we saw a vast tightening of what was and wasn’t accepted on the site. This is just my hope though, as I’m thoroughly enjoying the feeling of the “old” internet that Lemmy has given me since I joined last week.
I think the problem is that some random lemmy mod won’t want to deal with DMCA takedowns and threats, so they will probably enforce it down, which is understandable.
Good point, hadn’t considered the individual repurcussions.
depends on your instance owner and where they live
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The tricky bit is that a smaller ownership structure makes the owners more personally liable, as arguments could more easily be made that the entire server exists to service the most active channel regardless of the other content. Larger platforms are better able to utilise Safe Harbour rules. As someone else has said, it also matters where the servers are located.
It will likely depend on how popular Lemmy becomes as well as the server physical location \ DNS registry that of used.
Having a piracy channel on an instance located in a country that does not recognize intellectual property, and a DNS registration in a TLD that doesn’t respond to piracy complaints should be pretty bullet proof. Only thing that companies could do at that point would be to try to get a court order to have the DNS entry blocked by US \ EU \ etc DNS providers, or a court order for ISPs blocking the server IP address. These could be easily circumvented by changing the server IP if it happens and updating the DNS.
I hope less restrictive. Would be nice to speak about these things without feeling like a speakeasy and having to play cherades to help a fellow out.
