“Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right”: Meta emails unsealed
arstechnica.com
Meta’s alleged torrenting and seeding of pirated books complicates copyright case.
  • tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.comMEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    Meta also allegedly modified settings “so that the smallest amount of seeding possible could occur,” a Meta executive in charge of project management, Michael Clark, said in a deposition.

    Douchebags.

        • ddh@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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          46 minutes ago

          So, the minimally illegal way to stiff the people sharing with them. They continue to innovate in the age-old field of bastardry.

      • tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.comMEnglish
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        25 minutes ago

        After doing terrible crap for so long without much, if any, punishment leads to brazen and absurd tactics…

        Soon I expect something akin to them running their own marketplace scams or similar fraud just because it’s so profitable vs expense/penalty.

        As you say, it’s like a bad caricature of the stereotype.