• Scrollone@feddit.it
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    9 days ago

    That’s exactly what Meta did, they torrented the full libgen database of books.

    If they can do it, anybody should be able to do it.

    • golden_zealot@lemmy.ml
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      9 days ago

      I like how their whole excuse to that was “WE DIDN’T SEED ANY OF IT BACK THOUGH” which arguably makes it even worse lol.

    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      Technically it was never illegal in the US to download copywritten content. It was illegal to distribute them. That was literally Meta’s defence in court: they didn’t seed any downloads.