▲ 758 ▼ Judge Rules Blacked.com Can Sue Meta for Scraping Its Porn (www.404media.co) submitted 4 months ago by Some_Emo_Chick@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 64 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago (1 child) I don't understand your math. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] immutable@lemmy.zip 20 points 4 months ago I think it’s due to an incorrect reading of this sentence “A Strike 3 Holding investigation found that 47 IP addresses belonging to Meta were used to torrent 2,396 of its videos a total of 6,008 times between 2018 and 2025.” There’s two interpretations of this sentence, that they was a total of 6008 downloads of 2396 videos, so some videos were downloaded multiple times. The math in that comment is reading it to mean the 2396 items were downloaded 6008 each. Since the original uses the clarifier “a total of 6,008” the first interpretation is the likely correct one and the commenter accidentally interpreted it the second, incorrect, way. Easy enough mistake to make if you skip over the phrase “a total of” permalink fedilink source parent
[–] immutable@lemmy.zip 20 points 4 months ago I think it’s due to an incorrect reading of this sentence “A Strike 3 Holding investigation found that 47 IP addresses belonging to Meta were used to torrent 2,396 of its videos a total of 6,008 times between 2018 and 2025.” There’s two interpretations of this sentence, that they was a total of 6008 downloads of 2396 videos, so some videos were downloaded multiple times. The math in that comment is reading it to mean the 2396 items were downloaded 6008 each. Since the original uses the clarifier “a total of 6,008” the first interpretation is the likely correct one and the commenter accidentally interpreted it the second, incorrect, way. Easy enough mistake to make if you skip over the phrase “a total of” permalink fedilink source parent