'Meta Torrented over 81 TB of Data Through Anna's Archive, Despite Few Seeders'
Freshly unsealed court documents reveal that Meta downloaded significant amounts of data from shadow libraries through Anna's Archive.
Remember when Aaron Swartz tried to do something similar and received multiple life sentences
What Swartz did was not even close. What he did was absolutely fair use. He downloaded shit from JSTOR while at MIT which is fine because MIT allows students and employees to access JSTOR. There was no evidence that he shared anything.
Meta did not immediately respond to Ars' request for comment and has maintained throughout the litigation that AI training on LibGen was "fair use."
When I upload a single half century old photo to Wikipedia, I have to fill out a relatively complicated form proving that it meets "fair use" standards. Internet Archive got legally fucked for allowing people to read their book scans without restriction for a while. And now these absolute cunts have the gall to defer to "fair use"! I really wonder if the same authors and publishing houses who sued IA will do anything about this.
See, Meta is rich and US laws don't seem to apply to American oligarchs.
This doesn’t mean that Meta denies using shadow libraries, its argument is that using such data to train its LLM models constitutes fair use under U.S. copyright law.
Oh wow, I'm very much looking forward to this argument... "We believe pirating the copyrighted commercial works of others en masse to develop our own commercial product constitutes fair use... China bad!"
Of course they didn't seed. Fucking leeches.
They were leeches without the torrenting.
If they don't respect copyright I don't respect it either
We just need to wait until copyright regulations get killed... Right?
Right?
Right...?
Surely they would...
Copyright lobby begs to differ. 😂
My Mullvad account begs to differ. And it makes my banker happy!
“Plaintiffs do not plead a single instance in which any part of any book was, in fact, downloaded by a third party from Meta via torrent, much less that Plaintiffs’ books were somehow distributed by Meta,” the company writes.
Another reason to hate Meta, now they're scummy leechers even though they could afford the bandwidth to seed back
Capitalists aren't in the business of sharing.
did they seed back tho ?
What do you think?
Meta also allegedly modified settings "so that the smallest amount of seeding possible could occur,"
And they probably never reseeded it afterwards either, the inconsiderate prats
And they should pay for every book they stole :)
I don't usually like Meta, but here they used that data to produce open weights models available to the public. That sort of thing is what piracy is for so I support it.
That's a lot of Far Side books.
