I’ll put this over here, with the rest of the porn.
Pirating for personal satisfaction is legal ?
Well blimey !
“It was for our team-building circle jerk”
Does that make it legal? Cool.
They’re not saying they did it for Meta’s own personal use. They’re arguing a bunch of private individuals did for their own personal use and they just happened to be using Meta’s network, which, given that this is about 157 downloads, it honestly makes sense.
Yes, but you HAVE to wank on company time using the company laptop.
I have ThinkPad at work which is pleasant enough to touch due to rubberised plastic but wanking with it sounds tricky because of how stiff it’s hinges are.
Doesn’t it have the ThinkPad rubber nipple™?
How else would you engage in a foreplay with your laptop?
There’s no need to kink shame here. That is only allowed outside of business hours.
No, but they can say that it was all Jim’s fault and then fire Jim.
As per other crimes, only if you are rich.
For Meta employees to jack off? That’s a nice benefit system!
Same.
Pirating is legal now for personal use? perfect.
Sad to say the title is clickbait. The only evidence the plaintiffs have that meta pirated their work for AI training is that a bunch of it was pirated from IPs belonging to Meta. Meta is arguing that this is insufficient evidence as it’s more likely that a bunch of individuals with access to Meta IPs downloaded the videos for their own personal use. Given the very small amount of downloads and how spread out they were, I have to reluctantly side with them.
How would they even get a Meta IP?
Like most offices, they have an open network that anyone can use so they’re arguing passers-by, delivery persons, visitors and such. I’m more inclined to believe it was employees but still.
What if my network is open to everyone and someone pirates something using my IP? I would assume I’d be held accountable because I’m responsible for my network?
Probably shouldn’t be, but probably wouldn’t stop your ISP from taking action. I remember this attempt at a “movement” a decade or so ago; never caught on: openwireless.org.
According to the case cited by Meta, no you wouldn’t.
Me, an intellectual: same.
