Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

Somehow that makes it even worse in my opinion

I was actually hoping to see that as a defense. The principal thing that copy enforcement corps always cite is 'we downloaded a copy from their IP, thus they made a copy and distributed the work'.

If this works as a defense here then in effect they make direct download portals legal for the users at least.

So they're inconsiderate assholes and leeches.

Where now are the copyright trolls that sued regular students for millions of dollars for downloading 30 songs?

Under federal law, the recording companies were entitled to $750 to $30,000 per infringement. But the law allows as much as $150,000 per track if the jury finds the infringements were willful.

Let me see:

• At least 100 million of books pirated
• infringements were willful

So, a 15k billion dollars fine seem appropriate to give to Meta AND criminal sentences to all the c suite.

Or: apply the same rules to regular people and allow unlimited copyright violations without consequences

Yes your honor I lit up but didn't inhale.

thats like the only thing that would've made this better bro

Death penalty for leechers.

Bastard leachers.

ah so they only downloaded them illigally, and then used them illegally, but didn't share them illegally. got it

the company clarifies that there is nothing 'independently illegal' about torrenting.

Ah yes, I'm sure this strawman defense will hold up well for them in court.

We didn't inhale, so it's not illegal for us. ~ZuckFuck

Is there a way to change the torrent client's name\version so you appear in a list of seeds as Mark Zuckerberg?

Facebook was leeching? No way...

not really what we upset about but okay

I doubt anything legal would come from this, but it does progress the conversation about piracy:

“You wouldn’t download a car would you? Cause zuck would without sharing”

Overthrow democratic nations 👍 Theoretically the owning class loosing out on a few bucks 😱

Thanks Meta.

Haha, what a bunch of scumbags. They can"t even seed back when pirating.

We really need to round up all of Meta's executive directors, seize all their assets (every last cent) and require them to do mandatory two decade live-in community service as junior custodians (the lowest level custodians in the whole institution) at hospice centres or infectious disease hospitals. De-mining work and resource extraction junior support would also be good options for community service work.

Not for this of course, more like knowingly enabling genocide in Myanmar and so on.

I know it’s their legal defense and all, but it’s not like any of us thought they would seed in the first place. Their business is only about taking for profit, not sharing or giving anything back.