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Meta (facebook) torrented 87.1tb of pirated books to train AI (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Irelephant@lemm.ee to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 140 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 43 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] 0range@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah they'll lawyer up, but only for themselves. They have no reason to to do anything that benefits the rest of us.

Maybe the torrenting community could see some legal benefits, but only if incentives align. Which they very well may not because Meta is not one of us and their interests don't really align with anyone else's.