Zuckerberg’s corporate piracy era is peak hypocrisy. Stealth mode torrenting on company hardware while scrubbing traces to avoid accountability? Classic. Meta’s obsession with “data” apparently includes swashbuckling for copyrighted material—just don’t let the plebs do it.
”Smallest amount of seeding possible”? Pathetic. Even leechers have standards. But why bother with ethics when you’re a billionaire playing digital privateer? The courts will shrug, the bourgeois judges will yawn, and Zuck’ll sail into the sunset with his ill-gotten datasets.
Yo bro, maybe invest in a VPN next time. Or just buy a legislature.
That’s very little.
If we (people in general) do it, we’re being filthy thieves and the reason why everything is bad. But when it’s a megacorpo, it’s suddenly a-OK?
Screw this shit. Information should be like the air, free for everyone. Not free for the GAFAM chaste and paid for us untouchables.
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.
Depends on country. In Russia only being first seeder is illegal. New peers fall under “technical limitations” clause.
So, the minimally illegal way to stiff the people sharing with them. They continue to innovate in the age-old field of bastardry.
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.
Meta also allegedly modified settings “so that the smallest amount of seeding possible could occur,”
Big tech taking without giving back to the community once again.
I think this is still going to be a net benefit to us, though. Meta may not have contributed much bandwidth, which is leeching in the short term, but in the long term they’re now forced to contribute something much more important; lawyer power. Meta is going to have to fight to defend piracy.
You are very naive
Don’t count on it.
You think Meta will just roll over and hand out whatever penalties the publishers demand of them?
Meta isn’t going to be defending us. It’s going to be defending itself. Because it is now one of us.
Secret out-of-court settlement is an option.
Also known as “bribing your way out of the law”
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Motherfuckers are actually arguing that seeding a torrent isn’t “distributing” unless they can show an instance of someone downloading a book from their IP… If that flies they better overturn every fucking piracy conviction ever.
For real.
Just another day in the system only oppressing the poor.
won’t somebody please think of the shareholders?
Yeah, i do. load gun
Isnt thatvway to much volume for text? I would imagine every book ever written to be judt a few tb. But I also don’t know much about the issue
They downloaded the torrents from Annas Archive, which are standing at ~500TB currently. Keep in mind that you’re dealing not only with text, but also with books scanned as images, books with lots of illustrations, scientific articles with illustrations and also comic books.
Those books couldn’t all be in only plaintext. I’m certain that many of them are also scans.
I see. Thanks
This is so fucking funny
Previous discussion https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/21649585
huh. I pasted the link in the searchbar and nothing came up. Still better than reddit’s search.
Because you’re linking arstechnica and the other post is linking torrentfreak
Oh.
As @Jones@lemmy.dbzer0.com points out, it’s a different article, but the same subject matter. It’s not a duplicate post.
what did they use? µTorrent?
