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1. Ars Technica (arstechnica@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 06:27:35 JST Ars Technica

   Meta torrented over 81.7TB of pirated books to train AI, authors say
   Meta's alleged torrenting and seeding of pirated books complicates copyright case.
   https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-torrented-over-81-7tb-of-pirated-books-to-train-ai-authors-say/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

   • David (davids7@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 08:03:20 JST David

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     @arstechnica Books are pretty small in file size. My mind has a hard time comprehending 81.7 TB of books.

   • Mister Wanko (misterwanko@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 08:49:34 JST Mister Wanko

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     @arstechnica oh shit

   • altruios phasma (altruios@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 09:19:21 JST altruios phasma

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     @arstechnica this is all senseless. As in, without a sense of reason or logic.
     A few points:

     1) Copyright is broken.
     2) training data is is fair use if you purchase the text. Arbitrarily modifying that text privately should be legal. You should be able to open your text in any arbitrary program (yes: even a music player).
     3) Pay writers for their work.
     4) output of LLM’s should be subject to copyright, which is how it works now.
     5) information should be open/free (after a certain point).

   • Minnesota 123456 (minnesota411988@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 11:28:31 JST Minnesota 123456

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     @arstechnica Largest theft of intellectual property ever?

   • rouxdoo √ (rouxdoo@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 13:21:39 JST rouxdoo √

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     @arstechnica

     I have to ask if their ISP sent them a "your IP address was identified as an illegal file-sharing address and cease and desist or action will be taken" email.

     My son installed torrent software to grab an out of production game for his girlfriend and we got that email within an hour of his infraction. It was a very threatening email.

     If Meta torrented, they were, by definition, sharing as they did so and were guilty of file sharing and piracy. No repercussions?

   • Yoga_Fuego (yoga_fuego@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 08-Feb-2025 23:27:48 JST Yoga_Fuego

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     @arstechnica
     They’re leech seeders too!? There is no bottom to this company’s perfidy.