Meta (facebook) torrented 87.1tb of pirated books to train AI
Meta’s alleged torrenting and seeding of pirated books complicates copyright case.
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Meta also allegedly modified settings "so that the smallest amount of seeding possible could occur," a Meta executive in charge of project management, Michael Clark, said in a deposition.
Douchebags.
Lol why do they have to do things in the most cartoonishly evil way?
Seeding is worse legally.
So, the minimally illegal way to stiff the people sharing with them. They continue to innovate in the age-old field of bastardry.
Depends on country. In Russia only being first seeder is illegal. New peers fall under "technical limitations" clause.
Wow Russia has more sensible Copyright legislation than most of Europe?
Rare Russian W
After doing terrible crap for so long without much, if any, punishment leads to brazen and absurd tactics...
Soon I expect something akin to them running their own marketplace scams or similar fraud just because it's so profitable vs expense/penalty.
As you say, it's like a bad caricature of the stereotype.
I think it's because in the US downloading and owning is by far not as risky as sharing is.
They get out of liability like that.
