Meta staff torrented nearly 82TB of pirated books for AI training — court records reveal copyright violations

I have no idea what you're talking about. I don't pirate media. I'm just slowly gathering a collection of AI training data.

na, they'll just say it doesn't apply to companies because no clear pleb to pin it on.

We already have precedent. They need to be fined the same rate as the Napster cases.

If When

Meta vs the combined DMCA lobby

One of those fights where I’m rooting for both sides to lose.

Copyright violation doesn't get you arrested.

Let's do some math. Some searching suggests the average size of an e-book is about 3 MB. 82 TB means they pirated about 27 million e-books. At the rate of Russet's fine, that would come to damages of $2.2 trillion. So not more money than has ever is about 4x Meta's entire market cap.

I hope the book publishers sue Meta and end up owning Facebook and Instagram. Not that I expect one evil megacorp to inevitably fix all the ills of another. But it would be hard to make Facebook any worse than it currently is.

There is a book, Year Zero, that covers this idea. I didn't much care for the writing, but the plot was a fun idea. Aliens discovered Earth, and Humans had a unique talent for creating music. So the entire universe started sharing human music before they realized their mistake. Intergalactic law says they have to respect our copyright law, but they didn't know such a crazy concept existed until they owed practically the entire universe to Earth. Some alien races decided the solution was to just blow up Earth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Zero_(Reid_novel)

And the only one with a backup is Facebook.