“Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right”: Meta emails unsealed
arstechnica.com
Meta’s alleged torrenting and seeding of pirated books complicates copyright case.
  • tenchikenMEnglish
    69•1 month ago

    Meta also allegedly modified settings “so that the smallest amount of seeding possible could occur,” a Meta executive in charge of project management, Michael Clark, said in a deposition.

    Douchebags.

        • ddhEnglish
          12•1 month ago

          So, the minimally illegal way to stiff the people sharing with them. They continue to innovate in the age-old field of bastardry.

        • @[email protected]English
          11•1 month ago

          Depends on country. In Russia only being first seeder is illegal. New peers fall under “technical limitations” clause.

      • tenchikenMEnglish
        9•1 month ago

        After doing terrible crap for so long without much, if any, punishment leads to brazen and absurd tactics…

        Soon I expect something akin to them running their own marketplace scams or similar fraud just because it’s so profitable vs expense/penalty.

        As you say, it’s like a bad caricature of the stereotype.

    • Fonzie!English
      4•1 month ago

      I think it’s because in the US downloading and owning is by far not as risky as sharing is.
      They get out of liability like that.