Badlands conspiracy theorist!! Have you actually been there, huh?? I think not! The bad lands are a conspiracy to keep us all from wandering out!! Wake up sheeple!!1!

Parents of that kid paying for the 67th tooth: By God, what have we created?

Hot damn, gurl, you flyin'!

Wow, spooky. I may steal this as a cryptic clue for a private TTRPG campaign.

"owned"

Or it's our regular old sun on its way down towards the horizon and mum doesn't want to walk back in the dark.

Hey, shooters gonna shoot their shots

Note to self: Don't play Toby Maguire for money. Just in case he asks.

It is unilateral. They have no contract with Google. Google is expected to fight back. I use various hardened Firefox forks on all my devices and mostly Nextpipe for YT, so I don't much care, but that's the background.

You see, that's why OP always carries a second phone: To photograph the first one not falling into the gutter

Shut up and take my upvote already. And you too, OOP!

TLDR: Meta now faces lawsuit, alleged to have systematically torrented copyrighted porn, likely for Ai training. Meta's defense arguing the torrenting were done by rogue employees having a wank was not accepted by the judge because of keyword<->IP range patterns suggesting systematic scraping.

IMO, the funny / sad thing is that it's the torrenting that got them. Not the, IDK, scraping of every human work ever put onto the internet for the explicit act of producing derivatives, even in cases where the original author has indicated that they don't want that thing. No, no, it's the torrenting that's devil's work.