Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

60310 readers

293 users here now

⚓ Dedicated to the discussion of digital piracy, including ethical problems and legal advancements.

Rules • Full Version

1. Posts must be related to the discussion of digital piracy

2. Don't request invites, trade, sell, or self-promote

3. Don't request or link to specific pirated titles, including DMs

4. Don't submit low-quality posts, be entitled, or harass others

Loot, Pillage, & Plunder

📜 c/Piracy Wiki (Community Edition):

🏴‍☠️ Other communities

Torrenting/P2P:

Gaming:

💰 Please help cover server costs.


Ko-fi	Liberapay

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

535

Meta (facebook) torrented 87.1tb of pirated books to train AI (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

52 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 69 points 2 months ago (7 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Lol why do they have to do things in the most cartoonishly evil way?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Seeding is worse legally.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

So, the minimally illegal way to stiff the people sharing with them. They continue to innovate in the age-old field of bastardry.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Depends on country. In Russia only being first seeder is illegal. New peers fall under "technical limitations" clause.