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

submitted 2 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 54 points 2 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.

[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If you ever downloaded an R rated movie, you probably shared it with minors.

If a minor knows how to use bittorrent in 2025, I'm more than happy to upload R-rated movies to them. It's not like it's the biggest hurdle to overcome, but it's big enough that I trust the judgment of that young person.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't think it's even illegal to watch R-rated movies as a minor, it's more of a guideline for your caretakers.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

I used that example because I didn't want to use the same inflammatory rhetorical concept as the article. Some countries might have regulations related to "corruption" of minors for sharing anything inappropriate with them.

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