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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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[–] 72 points 2 years ago (9 children)

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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  • [–] 45 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I have no idea what you're talking about. I don't pirate media. I'm just slowly gathering a collection of AI training data.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    na, they'll just say it doesn't apply to companies because no clear pleb to pin it on.

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