@[email protected] to [email protected]English • edit-217 hours ago'Meta Torrented over 81 TB of Data Through Anna's Archive, Despite Few Seeders'torrentfreak.commessage-square54fedilinkarrow-up1443arrow-down10cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]piracy
arrow-up1443arrow-down1external-link'Meta Torrented over 81 TB of Data Through Anna's Archive, Despite Few Seeders'torrentfreak.com@[email protected] to [email protected]English • edit-217 hours agomessage-square54fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]piracy
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•16 hours ago$250k per offence is literally nothing to meta.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•5 hours agoAverage ebook size: 2.5 MB or so. Meta downloaded 81 TB, or 81,000,000 MB. 81,000,000 / 2.5 = Approx 30 million books. 30,000,000 books * $250,000 per offence = $7.5 trillion (are you sure you’re from programming.dev?)
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•14 hours ago$250k * [every book in existence] is literally nothing? Remember, “offense” doesn’t mean “per torrent,” it means “per copyrighted work infringed.”
minus-squareSnot FlickermanlinkfedilinkEnglish8•edit-215 hours agoEach time someone uses their LLM it should be considered a violation. People are using these things millions of times a day in aggregate. That adds up fast. $250k multiplied by millions suddenly isn’t so cheap.
$250k per offence is literally nothing to meta.
Average ebook size: 2.5 MB or so.
Meta downloaded 81 TB, or 81,000,000 MB.
81,000,000 / 2.5 = Approx 30 million books.
30,000,000 books * $250,000 per offence = $7.5 trillion
(are you sure you’re from programming.dev?)
$250k * [every book in existence] is literally nothing?
Remember, “offense” doesn’t mean “per torrent,” it means “per copyrighted work infringed.”
Each time someone uses their LLM it should be considered a violation.
People are using these things millions of times a day in aggregate. That adds up fast. $250k multiplied by millions suddenly isn’t so cheap.