If we (people in general) do it, we’re being filthy thieves and the reason why everything is bad. But when it’s a megacorpo, it’s suddenly a-OK?
Screw this shit. Information should be like the air, free for everyone. Not free for the GAFAM chaste and paid for us untouchables.
Meta also allegedly modified settings “so that the smallest amount of seeding possible could occur,” a Meta executive in charge of project management, Michael Clark, said in a deposition.
Douchebags.
Lol why do they have to do things in the most cartoonishly evil way?
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.
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.
Don’t count on it.
Motherfuckers are actually arguing that seeding a torrent isn’t “distributing” unless they can show an instance of someone downloading a book from their IP… If that flies they better overturn every fucking piracy conviction ever.
For real.
Just another day in the system only oppressing the poor.
Isnt thatvway to much volume for text? I would imagine every book ever written to be judt a few tb. But I also don’t know much about the issue
Those books couldn’t all be in only plaintext. I’m certain that many of them are also scans.
won’t somebody please think of the shareholders?
Yeah, i do. load gun
This is so fucking funny
Previous discussion https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/21649585
huh. I pasted the link in the searchbar and nothing came up. Still better than reddit’s search.
Because you’re linking arstechnica and the other post is linking torrentfreak
Oh.
As @Jones@lemmy.dbzer0.com points out, it’s a different article, but the same subject matter. It’s not a duplicate post.
what did they use? µTorrent?
