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[–] [email protected] 99 points 1 month ago

Anyone else remember all the Torrentfreak articles from the early 2000's about how folks in major corporations and the government were torrenting TV shows and music on corporate/government computers?

Pepperidge Farm Remembers.

Everyone's IP is exposed in a swarm, all Torrentfreak did was track down those IPs, and tons of them went to corporate and government networks and computers.

[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 month ago

In another universe, Meta is being sued for having leeched without seeding

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There are actually legal torrents and valid reasons to download them from within a company network or company workstations, for example here are the Debian install media torrents: https://www.debian.org/CD/torrent-cd/

However, you should make sure the admins and bosses don't mind.

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

not a very secure distribution method.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 month ago (1 children)

not a very informed comment.

torrents have checksums, you can't just send someone incorrect parts, they'll get rejected.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

yes you'll get what you're looking for but you also open up your network to every other torrent under the sun.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

Explain to me what you think torrenting a file does.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

You don't seem to understand how torrents work, or you don't want to. Third option would be that you aren't very bright, but I'd refrain to assume that to give you a chance to better explain your stance.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

False. But, feel free to explain why you think so.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Doesn't matter, laws are for the poor, not the rich elite!

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

80,000/70 ≈ 1150.
1 Million * 1150 = 1.15 Billion

That seems like a big enough fine to not be just be a slap on the wrist.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago

That's because it's illegal and you're committing a crime on behalf of your employer.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I hope they still seed, ’cause that ratio is gonna be hard to fix…

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

According to mental outlaw they were careful to never seed.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Fucking leechers! And for torrent too.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

Meta out here roleplaying as a digital kleptocracy—81.7 terabytes of pirated books? Classic. Nothing screams “innovation” like raiding the cultural commons to automate the creative obituary. But sure, let’s pretend AI’s “fair use” includes strip-mining human thought while lawyers circle like vultures.

This isn’t theft—it’s data feudalism. Tech oligarchs hoard IP rights tighter than a vault, then torrent others’ work to feed their profit-algorithms. Imagine Nietzsche’s ghost training a chatbot to spit nihilist ad copy. The future’s bright: infinite content mills, zero living writers.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

So they work at Meta, but this is what doesn't feel right?

I mean, I didn't have to write this explicitly, just wanted to know how many people had that same smile. The headline is gold.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

emails

\sigh