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This isn't accurate. If this is the nature of your internet communities, I would encourage you to find different communities. It does seem to me that lemmy.world is becoming this type of community, yes, and I have a somewhat-solidifying plan to leave because of it. There are definitely Lemmy instances where an announcement like this wouldn't be met with hundreds of downvotes and people threatening to leave or predicting the downfall of Lemmy as a result (not this instance, but Lemmy as a whole, I think probably because they're not real clear on the difference.)
My reaction to the comments on this announcement is not intended to "give anyone shit." I don't plan to add anything negative to the discussion unless I feel like I have to in order to be honest about my view.
I can pretty much promise you that I'm trying to be open to what you say and evaluate it honestly and engage with you in good faith, although I'll definitely disagree with you on some things. IDK if you believe that, but it's true. If you have no plans to do the same, we don't need to talk. If you're coming at this with the idea that we're supposed to be "giving each other shit" in some big bad-faith waste of time... IDK, man, I think it'd be better for you if you approached it differently, whether or not you think the other person's going to do the same.
The response is so overwhelmingly negative because these are communities that exist on all other social media sites. Lemmy.world has gone far beyond any legal requirement (likely because there is no one running this instance with any understanding of the law whatsoever) and kicked people out who were breaking no laws on this site. Of course that’s going to engender a wildly negative response.
Nobody collects statistics on the reasons people break copyright laws for what should be obvious reasons: people don’t want to break laws publicly and go on record as doing it. Those that would are likely to skew data in some way, as they’re the dumb pirates.