itiduenacvylipt's comments

On: Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn't illegal...

[itiduenacvylipt]

It's not hard. I've done it.

[Rhapso → itiduenacvylipt]

Right, but did they? It being easy doesn't mean data scientists moving fast and breaking things bothered while they were already doing something illegal.

On: Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn't illegal...

[itiduenacvylipt]

I do not work for Meta. Still throwaway account for obvious reasons.

I wrote a modified torrent client that fake seeds. No data (not even a byte) of the content itself is ever uploaded to another peer.

I'm aware this is an asshole move, but it made the lawyers happier.

[crazygringo → itiduenacvylipt]

That's actually really interesting, thanks for sharing.

I've genuinely been wondering if someone building these models has done exactly that, precisely after discussing with lawyers. It seems like the obvious move, legally.