Sounds like meta’s judge will have to invent a grand unified theory of fair use to excuse this.
I kept saying about various lawsuits that the important thing is discovery. Nobody knew all the idiotic shit these folks were doing, so nobody could sue them properly.
P2P vs FTP or whatever is not the point. Subtitling the article “Lawsuit: Meta may have seeded porn to minors while hiding piracy for AI training.” (emphasis mine) is misleading as it implies they were seeding the files with the intention or purpose to make them available to children.
Also, I find it disingenuous to pretend like seeding a torrent originally published by someone else is the same thing as publishing the file on an FTP site yourself, even if there’s legal precedent for treating it that way. Even if the bytes of the file are flowing out from your computer, that doesn’t mean you’re the one who made the file available, “to minors” or otherwise.