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Anyone else remember all the Torrentfreak articles from the early 2000's about how folks in major corporations and the government were torrenting TV shows and music on corporate/government computers?

Pepperidge Farm Remembers.

Everyone's IP is exposed in a swarm, all Torrentfreak did was track down those IPs, and tons of them went to corporate and government networks and computers.

[–] archomrade@midwest.social 89 points 1 week ago

In another universe, Meta is being sued for having leeched without seeding

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 68 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There are actually legal torrents and valid reasons to download them from within a company network or company workstations, for example here are the Debian install media torrents: https://www.debian.org/CD/torrent-cd/

However, you should make sure the admins and bosses don't mind.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 60 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Doesn't matter, laws are for the poor, not the rich elite!

[–] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 70 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

80,000/70 ≈ 1150.
1 Million * 1150 = 1.15 Billion

That seems like a big enough fine to not be just be a slap on the wrist.

[–] obinice@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago

That's because it's illegal and you're committing a crime on behalf of your employer.

[–] Yomope@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I hope they still seed, ’cause that ratio is gonna be hard to fix…

[–] Nino477@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

According to mental outlaw they were careful to never seed.

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 8 points 1 week ago

Fucking leechers! And for torrent too.

[–] meowmeowbeanz@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 week ago

Meta out here roleplaying as a digital kleptocracy—81.7 terabytes of pirated books? Classic. Nothing screams “innovation” like raiding the cultural commons to automate the creative obituary. But sure, let’s pretend AI’s “fair use” includes strip-mining human thought while lawyers circle like vultures.

This isn’t theft—it’s data feudalism. Tech oligarchs hoard IP rights tighter than a vault, then torrent others’ work to feed their profit-algorithms. Imagine Nietzsche’s ghost training a chatbot to spit nihilist ad copy. The future’s bright: infinite content mills, zero living writers.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

So they work at Meta, but this is what doesn't feel right?

I mean, I didn't have to write this explicitly, just wanted to know how many people had that same smile. The headline is gold.