Comment by lucasyvas
9 months ago
This sets a hilarious precedent where downloading torrents becomes completely fine. You can just cite this case if they win - even though we are talking about books the MPAA is probably going to have an opinion here.
You're typical 19 year old doesn't have a team of elite lawyers to argue for her when she torrents Game of Thrones.
Expect Meta to "win" as in the plaintiffs just give up and calculate it's not worth pursuing. It would stun me if they even settle.
Not to mention the LLMs themselves are creating unauthorized copies of copywriten content. But again, Meta has unlimited money. Different rules for them.
has anyone ever gotten in actual legal trouble for torrenting? I know there was that one kid that a record label made an example out of for using napster a long time ago
Not sure if it's still the case but this is it is in Canada. Downloading is legal but uploading is illegal.
I think you’re right but I don’t think this is the case in the US? I’ve certainly read many stories over the years of the hammer coming down on downloading on its own.