“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.
  • tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.comMEnglish
    52·
    8 hours 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.

    • Fonzie!@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      3·
      4 hours 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.

    • heavyEnglish
      20·
      7 hours ago

      Lol why do they have to do things in the most cartoonishly evil way?

        • ddh@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          6·
          6 hours ago

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

        • uis@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          5 hours ago

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

      • tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.comMEnglish
        5·
        6 hours 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.