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melp@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 3 months 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

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melp@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 3 months ago
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Did they think they could get away with it?
  • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
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    It does if you do it a lot and then resell it. Which is what happened to a bunch of people in the days of Napster, and is exactly what these fuckers are doing.

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      That’s because they had not the money to pay for.

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