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'Meta Torrented over 81 TB of Data Through Anna's Archive, Despite Few Seeders' (torrentfreak.com)
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[–] meowmeowbeanz@sh.itjust.works 20 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Oh look, another tech giant treating open knowledge initiatives like their personal data buffet. Let me translate this corporate nonsense for you:

Meta: "We need training data for our AI!" Also Meta: Let's leech 81.7TB from a community project without contributing anything back.

The absolute audacity of downloading terabytes through torrents while their employees were internally admitting it was "legally problematic". And the best part? They couldn't even be bothered to seed properly - just grab and go, classic corporate behavior.

Remember when companies actually contributed to open source instead of just parasitically consuming it? But no, they'd rather burden volunteer-run projects with massive bandwidth costs while their lawyers probably bill more per hour than these projects' entire monthly budget.

Pro tip Meta: If you're going to pilfer knowledge from the commons, at least seed back properly. Your "move fast and break things" motto isn't supposed to apply to community archives.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

My seedbox is locked and load, please point me to the. Torrent in need. Archive team assemble!

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 hour ago

https://annas-archive.org/

This is the website listed in the article

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world -1 points 1 hour ago

When you're shilling for copyright, at least pick a lane. Are they bad for "pirating" or bad for not supporting "piracy"?

I guess it doesn't matter as long as the owners collect their rent.