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Meta was “allegedly” seeding porn to speed up their book downloads. (arstechnica.com)

submitted 3 days ago by diz@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Sounds like meta’s judge will have to invent a grand unified theory of fair use to excuse this.

I kept saying about various lawsuits that the important thing is discovery. Nobody knew all the idiotic shit these folks were doing, so nobody could sue them properly.

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[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 56 points 3 days ago (11 children)

The "to minors" is a bit inflammatory. "Without any sense of discretion or propriety" is more accurate. It's not like you seed torrents for specific people. P2P just doesn't care if anyone is a minor or not, and downloading anything makes it available tl everyone anonymously. If you ever downloaded an R rated movie, you probably shared it with minors. The way it's written makes it sound intentional and predatory.

[–] jonhendry@iosdev.space 6 points 3 days ago (4 children)

@themeatbridge

P2P may not care but a mega-corporation ought to care about who they might be making the files available to. Using a P2P tool doesn't make it any better than putting it on an open FTP server at Facebook.com.

P2P isn't the target here so your knee-jerk defensive posture is misplaced.

[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I mean, arguably an open FTP server would have been better because how many kids these days could actually use an FTP client?

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 4 points 3 days ago

About as many as a bittorrent client, i.e. a rounding error.

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