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melp ( melp@beehaw.org )  to TechnologyEnglish · 2 years 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 ( melp@beehaw.org )  to TechnologyEnglish · 2 years ago
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  • Thalestr ( Thalestr@beehaw.org ) 
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    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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      • Railcar8095 ( Railcar8095@lemm.ee ) 
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        My AI is enjoying a lot Severance. Very recommend… For training porpoises.

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      • Ioughttamow ( Ioughttamow@fedia.io ) 
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        I’ll just spin up an llc and do all of my torrenting for market research

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          • MNByChoice ( MNByChoice@midwest.social ) 
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            That isn’t hard to do.

            One needs high priced lawyers.

    • Itsamelemmy ( Itsamelemmy@lemmy.zip ) 
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      We already have precedent. They need to be fined the same rate as the Napster cases.

    • circuitfarmer ( circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org ) 
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      If When

  • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍 ( sxan@midwest.social ) 
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    Arrests? Like for other copyright violators?

    Oh, lordy. This is a fight I really hope happens. Meta vs the combined DMCA lobby.

    Ohpleaseohpleaseohplease

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    • verdare [he/him] ( verdare@beehaw.org ) 
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      Meta vs the combined DMCA lobby

      One of those fights where I’m rooting for both sides to lose.

    • thingsiplay ( thingsiplay@beehaw.org ) 
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      Copyright violation doesn’t get you arrested.

      • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍 ( sxan@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.

  • Monkey With A Shell ( ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com ) 
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    Jammie Rasset got tagged for $1.9M for sharing 24 songs, so if we extend the per instance to this case I’m pretty sure Meta owes more money than has existed in human history…

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      • Monkey With A Shell ( ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com ) 
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        This needs a theydidthemath comm to post to. 🙂

        • notfromhere ( notfromhere@lemmy.ml ) 
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          I’m not sure how I feel just remaking all the things on the new thing. Nothing stopping you from doing it of course. And I can block it easily enough. I guess do what makes you happy.

          • Monkey With A Shell ( ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com ) 
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            Internet culture is a leaky thing. A major chunk of meme and comic formats where born in 4chan and they’ve been adopted virtually everywhere on the web despite coming from a place that takes a certain level of self hate to stomach for any length of time. Lemmy is functionally a clone of reddit right down to the logo similarity. Trying to claim that somehow it’s a different unique corner of the web and exercise in futility.

      • absGeekNZ ( absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz ) 
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        3Mb is mostly the cover art.

        The text is usually only 100-150kb. So if they only got text, it could be 20x higher.

        $44T, now we are talking about real money.

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    • GreyBeard ( greybeard@lemmy.one ) 
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      There is a book, Year Zero, that covers this idea. I didn’t much care for the writing, but the plot was a fun idea. Aliens discovered Earth, and Humans had a unique talent for creating music. So the entire universe started sharing human music before they realized their mistake. Intergalactic law says they have to respect our copyright law, but they didn’t know such a crazy concept existed until they owed practically the entire universe to Earth. Some alien races decided the solution was to just blow up Earth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Zero_(Reid_novel)

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  • 🦊 OneRedFox 🦊 ( OneRedFox@beehaw.org ) 
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    I’m going to be so pissed if this AI bullshit ends up drawing too much attention to the best shadow libraries and they get bopped because of it.

    • driving_crooner ( driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ) 
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      And the only one with a backup is Facebook.

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    Quick, fine them exactly in the same manner as a regular Joe would’ve been, plus take into account that he used them for financial gains.

    Judge got it give me 1/2 a push-up.

  • CCMan1701A ( CCMan1701A@startrek.website ) 
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    This court case is why the US government needed to invest billions into AI. Cover the legal fees. /s

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    Can’t say I feel bad about this, nor for piracy. IMO, copyright shouldn’t be a thing, or least limited to a small chunk of a human lifespan.

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