• Lexam@lemmy.world
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      15 hours ago

      It’s not piracy. For corporations. For you and me believe it or not, straight to jail!

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    15 hours ago

    “Meta downloaded millions of pirated books from LibGen through the bit torrent protocol using a platform called LibTorrent. Internally, Meta acknowledged that using this protocol was legally problematic,” the third amended complaint noted.

    Just want to make clear that Libtorrent is just the torrent application they were using, while the Libgen torrents are easily accessible on the libgen site, not through a separate “platform” called Libtorrent.

    I wish people like us could help with these complaints, because then they might actually get the details more accurate to reality.

    https://libgen.is/repository_torrent/

    https://www.libtorrent.org/

    The amended complaint makes it sound like Libtorrent is a private tracker website when its just the application they were using on the publicly available torrents.

  • SinningStromgald@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Given the extent it should be considered criminal so $250k per offense and the higher ups who authorized the torrenting should get conspiracy charges at a minimum.

    But this is America so they’ll probably pay a small amount, for Meta, and a light slap on the wrist with a finger wagging.