irelephant 🍭@lemm.ee to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 9 hours agoMeta (facebook) torrented 87.1tb of pirated books to train AIarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square44fedilinkarrow-up1369cross-posted to: news@hexbear.nettechnology@lemmy.mllinustechtips@lemmit.onlinetechnology@lemmit.online
arrow-up1369external-linkMeta (facebook) torrented 87.1tb of pirated books to train AIarstechnica.comirelephant 🍭@lemm.ee to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 9 hours agomessage-square44fedilinkcross-posted to: news@hexbear.nettechnology@lemmy.mllinustechtips@lemmit.onlinetechnology@lemmit.online
minus-squareheavy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·5 hours agoLol why do they have to do things in the most cartoonishly evil way?
minus-squareHumanPerson@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·4 hours agoSeeding is worse legally.
minus-squareuis@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 hours agoDepends on country. In Russia only being first seeder is illegal. New peers fall under “technical limitations” clause.
minus-squareddh@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·4 hours agoSo, the minimally illegal way to stiff the people sharing with them. They continue to innovate in the age-old field of bastardry.
minus-squaretenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.comMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·4 hours agoAfter doing terrible crap for so long without much, if any, punishment leads to brazen and absurd tactics… Soon I expect something akin to them running their own marketplace scams or similar fraud just because it’s so profitable vs expense/penalty. As you say, it’s like a bad caricature of the stereotype.
Lol why do they have to do things in the most cartoonishly evil way?
Seeding is worse legally.
Depends on country. In Russia only being first seeder is illegal. New peers fall under “technical limitations” clause.
So, the minimally illegal way to stiff the people sharing with them. They continue to innovate in the age-old field of bastardry.
After doing terrible crap for so long without much, if any, punishment leads to brazen and absurd tactics…
Soon I expect something akin to them running their own marketplace scams or similar fraud just because it’s so profitable vs expense/penalty.
As you say, it’s like a bad caricature of the stereotype.