Funny enough, I didn’t have a problem getting your book from Anna’s. I could not find a version on Bookracy that would download
Bookracy leaves me feeling squeamish. I don’t know what CloakGPT is, but it sounds disgusting. And while I do agree that knowledge should be free, their vibecoded app can’t even filter by language when their books are tagged as such.
I agree that knowledge should be decentralized and distributed. I don’t think this is it though
I’m often annoyed by this too because a screenshot doesn’t really prove anything, but the name of the article and the website are included in the screenshot
Configuration settings were modified “so that the smallest amount of seeding possible could occur”.
Meta claimed in a court filing this week that despite torrenting an 82 TB dataset of pirated, copyrighted material from shadow libraries to train its LLaMA AI models, that employees “took precautions not to “seed” any downloaded files”.
The act of Seeding in torrenting terminology refers to sharing a file with other users during, (or commonly after) downloading it. Since torrenting is a peer-to-peer system, every user downloading a file can also upload parts of it to other users.
Meta’s lawyers claim that there are “no facts to show that Meta seeded Plaintiffs’ books”. This means that the company’s defense is pinning hopes on the fact that there isn’t currently any proof that Meta shared the material during the torrenting process.
Though Meta claims that there is no evidence of seeding, Michael Clark, an executive at Meta in charge of project management testified that the configuration settings they were using were modified “so that the smallest amount of seeding possible could occur”.
Following this statement, a question regarding why Meta chose to minimize seeding was asked, attorney-client privilege was invoked so that Clark could not answer. Interestingly, the statement issued by Clark shows that Meta sought methods to minimize seeding, but has yet to offer up indication that it entirely prevented seeding copyrighted material.
Additionally, an internal message from Frank Zhang, a Meta researcher, could point toward alleged concealment of potential seeding from Meta’s servers, to avoid “risk of tracing back the seeder/downloader” to Facebook servers.
Meta’s defense seems to hinge around the lack of evidence around not sharing the large amount of data they have allegedly downloaded to train its AI models. Should Meta win on this defense and prove that downloading copyrighted content isn’t illegal, but distribution is, it could shake up future cases of piracy and unauthorized distribution of copyrighted content.
The defense relying on torrenting terminology could also a way for Meta to aim in tripping up courts. Focusing on seeding could further muddy the claim that Meta allegedly knew that it was violating laws by torrenting copyrighted material.
Meta has yet to respond to claims surrounding on whether it knew that it was sharing data during the download process.
Authors allege Meta was “knowing participant” in “illegal peer-to-peer piracy network”
Authors of the copyrighted material alleged to have been obtained by Meta without prior licensing agreements have alleged [PDF] that “Meta’s decision to bypass lawful acquisition methods and become a knowing participant in an illegal peer-to-peer piracy network”.
With the court battle expected to continue, no final decision around the case has been made. Even following a final decision, it’s expected that Meta will attempt to appeal the decision if they were to lose, meaning that final judgements could be a long while away.
But, similar cases do exist. OpenAI was sued by novelists in 2023, with the New York Times also suing OpenAI and Microsoft over “millions” copied news articles. As the long list of LLM-related litigation continues, this is likely not going to be the last we hear from Meta’s specific case.
I’m beginning to think that these Facebook people are kinda lame
My folks had a ghetto blaster when I was growing up, and I thought it was a cool name - completely unaware of the racial implications
One day I was talking to a friend who also grew up in the CD era, and the topic steers towards my dad’s ghetto blaster. They grew very concerned and were like, “Is everything okay at home, does your dad have a manifesto, should we call the police or something?”
Even though they definitely knew what a boombox was, they thought I was talking about a TEC-9. I no longer call a boombox a ghetto blaster.
Well thank GOD this has a free online image cropper, because I surely couldn’t have figured that one out on my own
If you need to use the Business Name Generator to name your business, I don’t have high hopes for your business
If you need to use one of the dozens of templates offered here, I don’t understand why you wouldn’t just use your own template. Ditto for the QR/Barcode generator/scanner - surely you already have some way of doing those things that doesn’t upload all your data to the cloud for who knows what purpose
If this suite is saving you half your work day, either you’ve never taken the time to set up your tools or you don’t have a real job
It depends on your needs, but sure, there’s tools out there. I think that’s what the *arr stack is all about but people have been doing it manually for as long as the internet’s been around.
Whatever media you’re downloading, you only have to hold onto what you want though. So like, yeah, video eats up storage space. When you’re curating a collection you have to decide what’s worth keeping, what might be worth backing up to physical media, and when it’s worth expanding your storage.
A torrent uses Peer-to-peer (P2P) networking. The way it works is that each client downloading a file is potentially also uploading a file. If you have a lot of peers, it typically moves faster. A popular torrent could let you download media far quicker than you could you consume it.
This also means it can run afoul copyright law depending on your jurisdiction. Example: in Canada it’s only a violation to upload copyrighted content, but downloading isn’t actually a crime. That said, not all torrented files are protected by copyright, it’s a technology that can be used for any file.
If you don’t want people to see what you’re downloading or are wondering if you might receive a copyright strike, I strongly encourage you to read the FAQ and ISP Complaints sections, and pay particular attention to what they have to say about VPNs.
That’s pretty much what self hosting is. You can get more complex if you really want to, but it’s traditionally where old household computers go to live out their autumn years.
As far as getting the content? I have a feeling the wiki in the sidebar could give you a torrent of answers
The sentence works here, “at the cost of” can refer to the consequences of doing something. So in this case neglecting documentation and testing comes with the cost of communication, inefficiency, etc.
Incidentally as you allude to with their workforce aging out, Proton is prioritizing making money at the cost of their sanity
There is no long-term strategy though. Line’s gotta go up in time for the fourth quarter, if it tanks next year that’s next year’s problem