- cross-posted to:
- piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- cross-posted to:
- piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
To help train AI models, Meta and other tech companies have downloaded and shared pirated books via BitTorrent from Anna’s Archive and other shadow libraries. In an ongoing lawsuit, Meta now argues that uploading pirated books to strangers via BitTorrent qualifies as fair use. The company also stresses that the data helped establish U.S. global leadership in AI.
They are saying that seeding is inherently part of torrenting, not that it’s fair use. I mean, at least they weren’t a leech.
My stance is fuck the copyright companies and fuck Meta for everything they do except in this case, because seedings a good thing and so is Anna’s archive.
Seeding is NOT needed for downloading.
To be fair, I did say inherently part of. It would have been rude of them not to seed.
Those bastards stole all our data! But hey, at least they seeded it. Would have been pretty darn rude, otherwise.