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hello yes I'm an ai company. let me torrent all the things pls thank you
That's exactly what Meta did, they torrented the full libgen database of books.
If they can do it, anybody should be able to do it.
I like how their whole excuse to that was "WE DIDN'T SEED ANY OF IT BACK THOUGH" which arguably makes it even worse lol.
Zuck would be a hit and runner....
It doesn't. You can download anything you want, distribution is what is illegal and criminal.
Downloading is still infringement. Distribution is worse, but I don't think it's a criminal matter, still just civil.
Maybe in some weird countries.
Torrent means you download and also upload to others when you have some parts.
No, not really. First of all, you can disable uploads. Second, you can use a seed box hosted in a country which doesn't prosecute uploaders. So, you can be clean for all legal intents and purposes.
Except the default is sharing. So, if you disable the upload you are leeching on purpose. That can be used against you in court. You did what you did for profit and not for sharing. 🤷♂️
Lol wut?
Kind of.
You can set your upload limit to 0 and not seed anything while still downloading.
Downloading is still 100% illegal in the US, though. However it's up to the copyright holders to pursue criminal penalties, which I'm surprised isn't happening with facebook.
Everyone who has evidence that facebook illegally downloaded their copyrighted material has a case to bring before a court.
Technically it was never illegal in the US to download copywritten content. It was illegal to distribute them. That was literally Meta's defence in court: they didn't seed any downloads.
So Meta, 100% leeching.
Yeah no, only a select few special Ai companies, of course
My mind is AI and I need this content to train it.
I'm not sure if my brain counts as artificial, but with all the microplastics, it sure ain't organic.