Comment by guywithahat
8 months ago
You do realize this is for a torrent app, right? Do you think the EU will slap a 38B fine on Apple because it's not allowing users to access movies illegally or download malware?
8 months ago
You do realize this is for a torrent app, right? Do you think the EU will slap a 38B fine on Apple because it's not allowing users to access movies illegally or download malware?
Then they came for torrent apps, and I was silent, because I don't use torrent apps.
Torrents are used legally all the time; it’s not always piracy.
Then I'm sure the developer of the app would be happy to screen for copyrighted content or malware, and attempt to remove it. It wouldn't even be hard, they could just poke a lightweight LLM at it and have the llm make the call, and maybe add a submission field to report illegal content.
Why? Should ISPs start MITM traffic? Internet connections can be used for downloading illegal content after all.
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> would be happy to screen for copyrighted
Are they legally required? Why would they then.
Apple on the other hand...
There is nothing about torrent apps in DMA.
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What this tells is the following:
1. You have absolutely no clue how the BitTorrent protocol works. 2. You have never maintained a widely used app as a single developer. 3. The extent of your use of LLMs is either academic / hobby or very narrowly focused and not integrated into a global product.
Just these points make your "suggestion" about using "LLMs to detect stuff is extremely easy" laughable at best.
The reason why people want to install their own software is to have freedom over their devices. The copyrighted content removal has a mechanism for it, called DMCA. And this is not how it works. The application does not have any content or means to circumvent any measures.
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