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melp@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years ago

Meta staff torrented nearly 82TB of pirated books for AI training — court records reveal copyright violations

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Meta staff torrented nearly 82TB of pirated books for AI training — court records reveal copyright violations

www.tomshardware.com

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    If Meta gets away with this or gets off lightly, I’d love for this to set a future legal precedent for future piracy cases.

    Unless they just straight up want to say “Piracy and copyright laws only apply to poor people” in a court of law.

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        I’ll just spin up an llc and do all of my torrenting for market research

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