irelephant [he/him]🍭 to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish • 3 months agoMeta (facebook) torrented 87.1tb of pirated books to train AIarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up1356arrow-down14cross-posted to: technology@beehaw.orgtechnology@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.ml
arrow-up1352arrow-down1external-linkMeta (facebook) torrented 87.1tb of pirated books to train AIarstechnica.comirelephant [he/him]🍭 to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish • 3 months agomessage-square26fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@beehaw.orgtechnology@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.ml
minus-squaretenchikenMlinkfedilinkEnglish39•3 months ago 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.
minus-square@heavy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish19•3 months agoLol why do they have to do things in the most cartoonishly evil way?
minus-square@uis@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish8•3 months agoDepends on country. In Russia only being first seeder is illegal. New peers fall under “technical limitations” clause.
minus-square@albert180@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglish3•3 months agoWow Russia has more sensible Copyright legislation than most of Europe? Rare Russian W
minus-squaretenchikenMlinkfedilinkEnglish8•3 months agoAfter 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.
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.
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.