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

submitted 1 year ago by Floofah@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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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[-] aaronbieber@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] DarkTides@lemmy.fmhy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] ScratchySoft@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

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.