“Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right”: Meta emails unsealed
arstechnica.com
Meta’s alleged torrenting and seeding of pirated books complicates copyright case.
  • RobotToaster@mander.xyzEnglish
    1341·
    15 days 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
      444·
      15 days 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.

        • FaceDeer@fedia.io
          5·
          15 days ago

          You think Meta will just roll over and hand out whatever penalties the publishers demand of them?

          Meta isn’t going to be defending us. It’s going to be defending itself. Because it is now one of us.

        • FaceDeer@fedia.io
          1·
          15 days ago

          Well, yes, why would you believe something without seeing it? But given how litigious the publishing industry is about this kind of thing I don’t see it as likely that they wouldn’t fight.

      • 0range@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        14 days 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.