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.

    • ExtremeDullard@piefed.socialOP
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      14 hours ago

      That’s not the point.

      The point is, those who don’t seed take and don’t share back.

      That’s what profiteers and sociopaths do - or a Zuckerberg-owned company.

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        10 hours ago

        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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          6 hours 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.