alt Hacker NewsSo the argument is that by torrenting ebooks, meta provided bandwidth to the torrent network, and thus provided (financial??!) benefit to pirate sites?
I got to be honest, that sounds extremely weak to me. The benefit to the pirate site of joining the torrent swam seems like it would be extremely slight.
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packetlost • today at 6:06 AM
The argument is that distribution is the infringement. This is basically the only thing torrenters get charged with.
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The pirate sites? There is no pirate site hosting files here, BitTorrent is peer to peer.
If it’s fine for a large corp. like Meta to pirate books then it’s fine for everyone else. If it’s a crime for ordinary consumers then it’s a crime for Meta too.
Especially as Meta aren’t doing this for charity. They train LLMs for their own gain.