In another universe, Meta is being sued for having leeched without seeding
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.
not a very secure distribution method.
Doesn’t matter, laws are for the poor, not the rich elite!
That’s because it’s illegal and you’re committing a crime on behalf of your employer.
I hope they still seed, ’cause that ratio is gonna be hard to fix…
According to mental outlaw they were careful to never seed.
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.
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.
emails
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