legal liability
You register at the DMCA website and respond timely to DMCA requests, while doing a decent enough job moderating.
That's literally it.
- a guy hosting his own instance
Isn't the issue lies on the fact that you cannot moderate what's posted on other instances but you have to store everything because you're federated ?
No, you have full control over what shows up on your instance and moderation actions are federated. So actions taken by admins and mods of the original instance federate to me, meaning I really don't have to do much work on my side. I think I've only had to take a few actions myself since starting my instance. I don't know if my mod actions are federated back to the original instance, but as it's not hosted by me, I don't care much.
actions.... federate to me, meaning I don't really have to do much work on my side
And then
I don't know if my mod actions are federated back... I don't care much
Catch the dissonance there?
It doesn't matter what's posted to other instances, what matters is what is on your hardware. So if you block instances posting pirates content, of witch I have seen 0 btw, you are protected from getting sued over it.
That's exactly my point. Blocking these communities is the only viable solution for LW since DCMA requests would not work on specific content
For some reason I thought that my instance isn't making a copy of everything from other servers. I'm probably wrong, but I thought that pictures and things like that aren't hosted locally and are only called when the front-end asks for it from other servers right?
I will be ass soon as I put my hardware together
hey, i know you from the 'hey, i know this one' meme
pirates are going to be cheering at lemmy.world's frequent downtime.
They must be children if they can't understand that Lemmy can't afford to take on the movie industry in court.
Lemmy.world (not all of Lemmy) wasn't breaking any laws.
They're volunteers running the instance personally, not a corporation with a legal team who can advise them how to best handle piracy related communities without being sued. Especially since their instance has to cache content from instances they federate with, it's hard to blame them for being overly cautious with piracy communities on instances out of their control to avoid being sued by litigation happy media corporations
thanks for using Leebra!
go to feed...
I don't see any of you kids hosting your own instance and taking on the legal liability for yourselves. Just shit posting and bitching
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