Zachariah comments on Meta tries to scapegoat staff who downloaded torrents to spare execs

Meta tries to scapegoat staff who downloaded torrents to spare execs (arstechnica.com)

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In copyright lawsuits over AI training, Meta has spent weeks blaming staff for downloading torrents. The company has now been ordered to name executives who authorized decisions to pirate books from shadow libraries like Anna’s Archive and LibGen, TorrentFreak reported.

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[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

I understand your point, but I was addressing that the article is inaccurate (as far as I understand) with this:

Since torrenting depends on a swarm of users, Meta could not have quickly downloaded … data … if the company wasn’t also seeding…

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[–] twack@lemmy.world 1 point 2 weeks ago

There are some swarms that do act like that, but I don't think it is universal. Perhaps they have evidence that Meta was connected to a swarm that shuns non-uploaders.

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