Comment on Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues

• partofthevoice@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Those bastards stole all our data! But hey, at least they seeded it. Would have been pretty darn rude, otherwise.

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  • architect@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s not stealing to download media.

    We can hate zuckerberg and still not care that the torrented books.

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    • partofthevoice@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I hear you, but hear me out… They’re creating products from the consumed torrents, which absolutely contained copyrighted materials. I’m not trying to capitalize my torrents. Although, I did use cracked photoshop back in high school for a $200 job.

      And to be completely honest with you, I don’t really care about copyright infringement so much, after it’s become a tool for organizations like Disney or whoever to abuse as they please. But the main body of work torrented here would be corpus’ of text, music, … a lot of stuff that independent producers created and rely on for income.

      I found this particular video quite insightful on the impact within the music industry: youtu.be/QVXfcIb3OKo

      To be fair to Meta, I’d have to say that I don’t really know what models they’re training via that data and how they’re using the resulting products. This is Meta, though, a pioneer and industry leader in the process of surveillance capitalism. I don’t particularly have high expectations for them.

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  • Grimy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m not pro-copyright. I actually steal content, as in pirate it and then watch it. I don’t consider it stealing to train AI on it.

    “Our” data implies we collectively own it, yet we don’t, copyright companies for the most part do.

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