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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Of course Zuck doesn’t seed

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Nothing is more appropriate than a member of the parasite class literally leeching

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Bloodzucker

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

piracy le bad unless youre rich

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

The company alleges that authors can't claim that Meta gained unauthorized access to their data under CDAFA. Instead, all they can claim is that "Meta allegedly accessed and downloaded datasets that Plaintiffs did not create, containing the text of published books that anyone can read in a public library, from public websites Plaintiffs do not operate or own."

They're going for standing.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Pretty sure RIAA went after downloaders back in the Napster days, so history hints otherwise.

Of course, it was the poor's doing the downloading rather than the oligarchs, $o... Yeah, that's the difference