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From the article, the 9tb are related to the other case, which is about book data.

Meta’s response that this is personal use is actually a pretty good argument. This case mentions something like 157 downloads over the last seven years. That does sound like it could be random employees. Plausibly.

But wouldn’t their IT infrastructure block random employees from running torrents on the network? If it was company directed, wouldn’t they use like a VPN from some regular common VPN provider so that this all looked like some random Joe downloading porn rather than Meta? It does mention they allegedly have some “secret” IPs on AWS, which is also funny to me.

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FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

But wouldn’t their IT infrastructure block random employees from running torrents on the network?

Not if the employees in question control the IT infrastructure.

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CriticalMiss@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I don’t know any self respecting sysadmin that doesn’t block P2P in their network. Most enterprise nowadays don’t even require any fancy set up, it’s a toggle switch away. I don’t buy the “oopsie we didn’t know” excuse. They were permitted to torrent by design.

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- eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Seriously, ain’t nobody torrenting terabytes of porn at work without approval.
  
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HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
But what if the people in question on the IT guys?

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