Authors Seek Meta's Torrent Client Logs and Seeding Data in AI Piracy Probe

Re:Authors Seek Meta's Torrent Client Logs and Seeding Data ... by jahsome on Monday January 20, 2025 @07:23PM (#42774808)

I read that as a (possibly sarcastic) rhetorical and cautionary hypothetical used to demonstrate the absurdity of ignoring copyright.

You seem like you set aside any critical thinking to come to "this website" looking for a reason to seethe over complete strangers about whom you know very little and whose motives you belligerently misrepresent all the while making exaggerated and extremist statements, and no doubt embracing worse thoughts.

You're the type of person destroying the planet _I_ live on.

This isn't a defense of technologists, it's a plea to stop tripping over yourself to see the worst in everyone.

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Re:Authors Seek Meta's Torrent Client Logs and Seeding Data ... by brookst on Monday January 20, 2025 @10:46PM (#42776380)

I agree that was the intent of the analogy but it’s not a great one. The idea that Disney, who has perverted IP laws globally for almost a century, should have equivalent ownership over their over-extracted copyrighted works to the same degree I have privacy for the thoughts in my own head? Really?

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Re:Authors Seek Meta's Torrent Client Logs and Seeding Data ... by jahsome on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @02:23AM (#42777410)

What's with the unnecessary straw man? Who said any of that?

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