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Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa urge UK Prime Minister to rethink his AI copyright plans. A new law could soon allow AI companies to use copyrighted material without permission. (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 39 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That's exactly what Meta did, they torrented the full libgen database of books.

If they can do it, anybody should be able to do it.

[–] golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I like how their whole excuse to that was "WE DIDN'T SEED ANY OF IT BACK THOUGH" which arguably makes it even worse lol.

[–] Plasticity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 12 hours ago

Zuck would be a hit and runner....

[–] Aux@feddit.uk 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It doesn't. You can download anything you want, distribution is what is illegal and criminal.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Downloading is still infringement. Distribution is worse, but I don't think it's a criminal matter, still just civil.

[–] Aux@feddit.uk 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe in some weird countries.

[–] bufalo1973@lemm.ee 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Torrent means you download and also upload to others when you have some parts.

[–] gradual@lemmings.world 1 points 6 minutes ago

Kind of.

You can set your upload limit to 0 and not seed anything while still downloading.

Downloading is still 100% illegal in the US, though. However it's up to the copyright holders to pursue criminal penalties, which I'm surprised isn't happening with facebook.

Everyone who has evidence that facebook illegally downloaded their copyrighted material has a case to bring before a court.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Technically it was never illegal in the US to download copywritten content. It was illegal to distribute them. That was literally Meta's defence in court: they didn't seed any downloads.

[–] utopiah@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

they didn’t seed any downloads

So Meta, 100% leeching.