Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers

• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They could threaten to sue discord for hosting copyrighted content, even if they expect to lose it doesn’t matter, the goal is to make discord close the channel and it worked.

  Cost/benefit analysis, you’ll probably win the lawsuit, it will still cost you a shit load of money in the meantime and you’re fighting against a company that has enough money to stop all its activities for a decade and still come out with enough funds to resume activities as if nothing happened. Or you can just ban one community from your platform.

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  • BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Right, if they host it, but they don’t. That’s the difference between what happened with GitHub/GitLab.

    And they can’t sue without the case having any merits. Meritless lawsuits also legally known as frivolous lawsuits are thrown out before even discovery phase with attorney fees awarded and the moron lawyers getting sanctioned.

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    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hosting isn’t necessary, providing access is enough, otherwise The Pirate Bay wouldn’t have had to change location again and again.

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      • BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Hosting is required under DMCA. And The Pirate Bay was ban and blocked hundreds of times, they have many proxy sites for that reason.

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