Comment by wat10000
1 day ago
I’m not talking about Japan. In the US, seeding a torrent containing copyrighted material without authorization from the copyright holder is unambiguously a copyright violation.
1 day ago
I’m not talking about Japan. In the US, seeding a torrent containing copyrighted material without authorization from the copyright holder is unambiguously a copyright violation.
Presumably you are talking about this case, where Meta is accused of having downloaded a bunch of having torrented a bunch of copyrighted works. [1]
Of relevance here is the fact that 1) Meta denies having seeded the content, and there looks to be no hard evidence that they distributed the content to other users, 2) the case is ongoing, so a decision has not yet been reached about whether they broke any laws, and 3) the fact that Meta is being sued for this shows that even corporations worth trillions of dollars are not immune to the consequences of breaking the law.
[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...
Of course they’re not immune to consequences. It’s just that the consequences are so relatively small that they don’t really care. Reminds me of the quote about how the law treats everyone equally: both rich and poor are forbidden to sleep under bridges, beg, and steal bread.