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Unremoval of Piracy Communities (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by lwadmin@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world
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Hello World!

As we've all known and talked about quite a lot, we previously blocked several piracy-focused communities. These communities, as announced, were:

In our removal announcement, we stated that we will continue to look into this more in detail, and re-allow these communities if and when we deem it safe. It was a solid concern at the time, because we were already receiving takedown requests as well as constant attacks, and didn't want to put our volunteer team at risk. We had zero measures in place, and the tools we had were insufficient to deal with anything at scale.

Well, after back and forth with some very cool people, and starting to have proper measures as well as tooling to protect ourselves, we decided it's time to welcome these communities back again. Long live the IT nerds!

We know it's been a rough ride with everything, and we'd like to thank every one of you who were understanding of us, and stayed with us all the way. Please know that as users, you are what makes this platform what it is, and damned we be if we ever forget it.

With love, and as always, stay safe in the high seas!

Lemmy.world Team

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[–] b3an@lemmy.world 599 points 1 year ago (28 children)

This is what I like to see. Not just heels digging in, but explanations as to why, the follow-ups, the investigation of options and follow through. Thanks for the transparency. Piracy has and won’t ever go away. I used to pirate due to lack of money and resources. When I had those I went legit. When legit sources started turning into:

  • monthly subscriptions for everything
  • when legit sources suddenly delete or remove content from their systems (to avoid paying taxes?)
  • when the rates go up for everything (internet access AND streaming services)
  • now ads in your paid services unless you pay more (Amazon)
  • Plex trying to go legit and police where and how people run their private streaming, fucking over license holders who built the financial footing they could stand on in the first place. Cool.

You can’t rely on any shit from these services, except for one shit… enshittification.

I don’t want to sound negative, but as a consumer, it’s been nothing but ads rammed down our throats from everywhere we go and look. They lie, they change rates, they shrinkflate, while their pockets get bigger. Long live piracy.

[–] Cozimo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait, what happened with Plex? I’m in the dark on that one.

[–] PrettyLights@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a bunch of analytics tracking and cloud integration in Plex. They are interested in what users are watching, which is concerning.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/7bim8n/plex_analytics_analyticsplextv/

Switch to Jellyfin or another open source server.

[–] papalonian@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

This is unrelated to the piracy topic at hand.

Plex has recently started cracking down on public servers suspected of piracy. I haven't heard anything about private servers getting harassed (and I've yet to be bothered about mine), but the servers where people pay $1/month or whatever to access someone else's server have been targeted.

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