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'Meta Torrented over 81 TB of Data Through Anna's Archive, Despite Few Seeders' (torrentfreak.com)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] akilou@sh.itjust.works 164 points 10 months ago (3 children)

But did they keep a good ratio though?

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 141 points 10 months ago (2 children)

1000% guarantee those mf's had their upload choked to 20kbps

[–] guaraguaito@lemmy.blahaj.zone 75 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Nah they used a leeching client. No upload at all.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Gotta have some upload just for the protocol traffic tho.

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 39 points 10 months ago

I would assume that the requests sent from the torrent client to download data are not factored into the Upload amount for the torrent. When they mean no upload, it would be that none of the data in the files they downloaded were shared with anyone else, making them a piece of shit leecher.

[–] Tregetour 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

20 was the lead engineer 'mishearing' Zuck after he said 2.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 10 months ago

Asking the real questions.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In copyright protection terms the ratio shouldn't matter. They should pay for all the lost profits from pirating everything they've downloaded. Every time someone pirated it should be counted. And every time someone uses the AI trained on the data.

They can become the corporate Jesus of the interwebs, having paid for our sins.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Technically, copyright infringement is committed by the entity making and sending the copy, not the entity receiving it. Leeching could indeed remove liability.

I'm not sure if the courts have cared about that nuance when persecuting the 'small fish,' but I bet they would in this 'big fish' case.

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If the receiving entity then ingests all that copyrighted material into its AI, and the AI sends it piece at a time to other receiving entities, that should be the AI infringing on everything it is copying to make its answers.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes, yes it should. But that's a different act than the one being discussed here.

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 7 points 10 months ago

I agree. Still doesn't hurt to bring it up on appropriate tangents.