Comment by c2h5oh
5 hours ago
Courts have also ruled that sharing in P2P network is enough to get hit with 150k in statutory damages per shared work.
AI companies did quite a bit of uploading while e.g. getting Anna's archive over BitTorrent.
5 hours ago
Courts have also ruled that sharing in P2P network is enough to get hit with 150k in statutory damages per shared work.
AI companies did quite a bit of uploading while e.g. getting Anna's archive over BitTorrent.
It's transformative. Not aimed at exact reproduction, so not in the scope of copyright law.
They participated in uploading the files as part of the downloading the torrent from other peers. Their use of the BitTorrent protocol to acquire these files would not have been transformative.
> They participated in uploading the files as part of the downloading the torrent from other peers.
Did they?
Are you sure?
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> They participated in uploading the files as part of the downloading the torrent from other peers.
Not necessarily. You can literally turn uploads off and leech torrents.
I think you misread. There is nothing transformative about bittorrent automatically sharing parts of a file you're downloading with your peers.