In one of the AI lawsuits faced by Meta, the company stands accused of distributing pirated books. The authors who filed the class-action lawsuit allege that Meta shared books from the shadow library LibGen with third parties via BitTorrent. Meta, however, says that it took precautions to prevent 'seeding' content. In addition, the company clarifies that there is nothing 'independently illegal' about torrenting.

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[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de -1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Hehe, I don't know if they don't want to understand it, or if it's a lack of technical knowledge... But yes. In the digital realm, a copy and the original are identical in every way, no matter how you twist it. And you can't even properly transfer any item it in the same sense as it applies to physical items. (Unless we're talking about quantum computers or something like that...)

[–] Rivalarrival 1 points 2 days ago

Their similarity is not in question. The fact is that you cannot make a copy of something until you have received it. The copy you receive was not created by you: it was created by the sender. You are merely receiving that copy; you are not creating that copy.

There is a spreadsheet on my desktop. You cannot create a copy. I can create a copy and send it to you. Two copies now exist on the planet; I made the copy. You merely received.