“Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right”: Meta emails unsealed

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• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Anyone else remember all the Torrentfreak articles from the early 2000’s about how folks in major corporations and the government were torrenting TV shows and music on corporate/government computers?

  Pepperidge Farm Remembers.

  Everyone’s IP is exposed in a swarm, all Torrentfreak did was track down those IPs, and tons of them went to corporate and government networks and computers.

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• archomrade@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  In another universe, Meta is being sued for having leeched without seeding

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• lurch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  There are actually legal torrents and valid reasons to download them from within a company network or company workstations, for example here are the Debian install media torrents: www.debian.org/CD/torrent-cd/

  However, you should make sure the admins and bosses don’t mind.

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  • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    not a very secure distribution method.

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    • example@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      not a very informed comment.

      torrents have checksums, you can’t just send someone incorrect parts, they’ll get rejected.

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    • lambda@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      False. But, feel free to explain why you think so.

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• cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Doesn’t matter, laws are for the poor, not the rich elite!

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  • cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    mstdn.social/@stux/113974665364673502 1000030000

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    • Jolteon@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      80,000/70 ≈ 1150 1 Million * 1150 = 1.15 Billion

      That seems like a big enough fine to not be just be a slap on the wrist.

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• obinice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That’s because it’s illegal and you’re committing a crime on behalf of your employer.

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• meowmeowbeanz@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Meta out here roleplaying as a digital kleptocracy—81.7 terabytes of pirated books? Classic. Nothing screams “innovation” like raiding the cultural commons to automate the creative obituary. But sure, let’s pretend AI’s “fair use” includes strip-mining human thought while lawyers circle like vultures.

  This isn’t theft—it’s data feudalism. Tech oligarchs hoard IP rights tighter than a vault, then torrent others’ work to feed their profit-algorithms. Imagine Nietzsche’s ghost training a chatbot to spit nihilist ad copy. The future’s bright: infinite content mills, zero living writers.

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• Yomope@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I hope they still seed, ’cause that ratio is gonna be hard to fix…

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  • Nino477@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    According to mental outlaw they were careful to never seed.

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    • muhyb@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Fucking leechers! And for torrent too.

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• rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  So they work at Meta, but this is what doesn’t feel right?

  I mean, I didn’t have to write this explicitly, just wanted to know how many people had that same smile. The headline is gold.

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• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  emails

  \sigh

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