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[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago

Technically it was never illegal in the US to download copywritten content. It was illegal to distribute them. That was literally Meta's defence in court: they didn't seed any downloads.

[-] utopiah@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

they didn’t seed any downloads

So Meta, 100% leeching.

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