Technology

Meta out here roleplaying as a digital kleptocracy—81.7 terabytes of pirated books? Classic. Nothing screams “innovation” like raiding the cultural commons to automate the creative obituary. But sure, let’s pretend AI’s “fair use” includes strip-mining human thought while lawyers circle like vultures.

This isn’t theft—it’s data feudalism. Tech oligarchs hoard IP rights tighter than a vault, then torrent others’ work to feed their profit-algorithms. Imagine Nietzsche’s ghost training a chatbot to spit nihilist ad copy. The future’s bright: infinite content mills, zero living writers.

That's because it's illegal and you're committing a crime on behalf of your employer.

There are actually legal torrents and valid reasons to download them from within a company network or company workstations, for example here are the Debian install media torrents: https://www.debian.org/CD/torrent-cd/

However, you should make sure the admins and bosses don't mind.

In another universe, Meta is being sued for having leeched without seeding

Anyone else remember all the Torrentfreak articles from the early 2000's about how folks in major corporations and the government were torrenting TV shows and music on corporate/government computers?

Pepperidge Farm Remembers.

Everyone's IP is exposed in a swarm, all Torrentfreak did was track down those IPs, and tons of them went to corporate and government networks and computers.

Doesn't matter, laws are for the poor, not the rich elite!

I hope they still seed, ’cause that ratio is gonna be hard to fix…

So they work at Meta, but this is what doesn't feel right?

I mean, I didn't have to write this explicitly, just wanted to know how many people had that same smile. The headline is gold.

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