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Re:Authors Seek Meta's Torrent Client Logs and Seeding Data ... by cactusplant7374 on Monday January 20, 2025 @08:32PM (#42775368)
That is probably exactly what they did if they were smart about it.
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Re:Authors Seek Meta's Torrent Client Logs and Seeding Data ... by qingcharles on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @01:15AM (#42777132)
I was (partly) responsible for obtaining recordings for a Very Large Online Streaming Service(tm). Sometimes the studios would send us trucks filled with CDs. Sometimes they didn't have any easily accessible copies of the albums and would tell us to just "get it however..." which often involved SoulSeek, Limewire, etc.

We were not smart about it. We just found the stuff and hit download. To the point where there were days the corp Internet was saturated from too many P2P clients running.

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