Freshly unsealed court documents reveal that Meta downloaded significant amounts of data from shadow libraries through Anna's Archive. The company's use of BitTorrent was already known, but internal email communication reveals sources and terabytes of downloaded data, as well as a struggle with limited availability and slow download speeds due to a lack of seeders.

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[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 59 points 2 weeks ago

And they probably never reseeded it afterwards either, the inconsiderate prats

[–] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 2 weeks ago

I like to think those internal communications were “goddamnit this torrents got no fucking seeders too!”

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 weeks ago

I'm locking this post since the same link was the same headline was submitted an hour before this one.

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 8 points 2 weeks ago

Hehe I would do the same if I was Meta ;P And ask for forgiveness later or something

[–] Ringmasterincestuous@aussie.zone 6 points 2 weeks ago