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[–] a1studmuffin@aussie.zone 12 points 1 hour ago

This doesn’t mean that Meta denies using shadow libraries, its argument is that using such data to train its LLM models constitutes fair use under U.S. copyright law.

Oh wow, I'm very much looking forward to this argument... "We believe pirating the copyrighted commercial works of others en masse to develop our own commercial product constitutes fair use... China bad!"

[–] nesc@lemmy.cafe 19 points 1 hour ago

Of course they didn't seed. Fucking leeches.

[–] turkalino@lemmy.yachts 47 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Remember when Aaron Swartz tried to do something similar and received multiple life sentences

[–] guaraguaito@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

And was intimidated so bad by the legal system he killed himself.

[–] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 70 points 5 hours ago
[–] AnEilifintChorcra@sopuli.xyz 38 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

“Plaintiffs do not plead a single instance in which any part of any book was, in fact, downloaded by a third party from Meta via torrent, much less that Plaintiffs’ books were somehow distributed by Meta,” the company writes.

Another reason to hate Meta, now they're scummy leechers even though they could afford the bandwidth to seed back

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 1 hour ago

Downloading and seeding are very legally different.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 13 points 4 hours ago

Capitalists aren't in the business of sharing.

[–] albert180@discuss.tchncs.de 39 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

If they don't respect copyright I don't respect it either

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

We just need to wait until copyright regulations get killed... Right?

[–] Bezier@suppo.fi 4 points 3 hours ago

Right?

Right...?

Surely they would...

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Copyright lobby begs to differ. 😂

[–] heavydust@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

My Mullvad account begs to differ. And it makes my banker happy!

[–] azron@lemmy.ml 25 points 5 hours ago

And they should pay for every book they stole :)

[–] zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 hours ago