'Meta Torrented over 81 TB of Data Through Anna's Archive, Despite Few Seeders' * TorrentFreak
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Freshly unsealed court documents reveal that Meta downloaded significant amounts of data from shadow libraries through Anna's Archive.
Bobby Turkalino
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Remember when Aaron Swartz tried to do something similar and received multiple life sentences

SeaJ
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What Swartz did was not even close. What he did was absolutely fair use. He downloaded shit from JSTOR while at MIT which is fine because MIT allows students and employees to access JSTOR. There was no evidence that he shared anything.

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His real crime is threatening profits of a corporation…

MIT is forever disgraced for their conduct and should be stripped of their tax exempt status.

And was intimidated so bad by the legal system he killed himself.

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p sure he Epsteined himself.

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Yeah, it probably wasn’t murder, but considering that the US is quickly becoming a fascist oligarcny just like Russia is, and more and more American whistle blowers seem to be mysteriously dying… I wouldn’t be surprised to learn he was murdered. The oligarchs are evil af and any government that can aggressively fund a baby killing genocide is also evil enough to kill people for petty reasons

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sunzu2
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JFK, tupac, biggie, Malcolm X, king

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To be fair, ‘I wouldn’t be surprised if…’ isn’t a testimony or claiming something happened, it’s voicing a level of disillusionment with something, nothing but opinion.

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He also wasn’t a whistleblower he was just downloading scholarly articles from a service he had legal access to use.

The theory that he would be murdered over this is pretty wild as any college student or person with a JSTOR account has access to these same articles, so what necessitates murder in Aaron’s situation? He wasn’t exposing anyone or anything. It was just some douche of a federal employee trying to advance his career by “making an example” out of some kid who arguably didn’t even do anything illegal.

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Meta did not immediately respond to Ars’ request for comment and has maintained throughout the litigation that AI training on LibGen was “fair use.”

When I upload a single half century old photo to Wikipedia, I have to fill out a relatively complicated form proving that it meets “fair use” standards. Internet Archive got legally fucked for allowing people to read their book scans without restriction for a while. And now these absolute cunts have the gall to defer to “fair use”! I really wonder if the same authors and publishing houses who sued IA will do anything about this.

Fonzie!
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See, Meta is rich and US laws don’t seem to apply to American oligarchs.

@xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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well the problem here is these laws have no teeth other than fines….
if you’re very rich, a fine is just a cover charge… and cheaper than doing it legally anyways.

Fonzie!
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Final Fantasy Tactics (1997) quote "If the penalty for a crime is a fine then that law only exists for the lower class"

That aside, there exist other charges such as jail time however long or short and penalties as a percentage of assets (such as in some Nordic countries)

If they don’t respect copyright I don’t respect it either

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Copyright lobby begs to differ. 😂

@heavydust@sh.itjust.works
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My Mullvad account begs to differ. And it makes my banker happy!

We just need to wait until copyright regulations get killed… Right?

Bezier
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Right?

Right…?

Surely they would…

azron
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And they should pay for every book they stole :)

“Plaintiffs do not plead a single instance in which any part of any book was, in fact, downloaded by a third party from Meta via torrent, much less that Plaintiffs’ books were somehow distributed by Meta,” the company writes.

Another reason to hate Meta, now they’re scummy leechers even though they could afford the bandwidth to seed back

@Telorand@reddthat.com
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Capitalists aren’t in the business of sharing.

sunzu2
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Parasite’s entire MO is to never give back.

Kairos
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Downloading and seeding are very legally different.

@nesc@lemmy.cafe
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Of course they didn’t seed. Fucking leeches.

DebatableRaccoon
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They were leeches without the torrenting.

a1studmuffin
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This doesn’t mean that Meta denies using shadow libraries, its argument is that using such data to train its LLM models constitutes fair use under U.S. copyright law.

Oh wow, I’m very much looking forward to this argument… “We believe pirating the copyrighted commercial works of others en masse to develop our own commercial product constitutes fair use… China bad!”

did they seed back tho ?

Hannes
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What do you think?

Meta also allegedly modified settings “so that the smallest amount of seeding possible could occur,”

@SplashJackson@lemmy.ca
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And they probably never reseeded it afterwards either, the inconsiderate prats

I don’t usually like Meta, but here they used that data to produce open weights models available to the public. That sort of thing is what piracy is for so I support it.

katy ✨
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That’s a lot of Far Side books.

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