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Meta was “allegedly” seeding porn to speed up their book downloads. (arstechnica.com)
submitted 5 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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[-] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 4 points 4 days ago

I mean, arguably an open FTP server would have been better because how many kids these days could actually use an FTP client?

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 4 points 4 days ago

About as many as a bittorrent client, i.e. a rounding error.

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