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

submitted 4 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 53 points 4 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.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 36 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Yea, it's not good of Ars to report the shameless "think of the kids" spin uncritically.

[–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

I’m just going to come out and say it: I don’t give a Kentucky fried fuck about the kids.

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