• Scrollone@feddit.it
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      That’s exactly what Meta did, they torrented the full libgen database of books.

      If they can do it, anybody should be able to do it.

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        I like how their whole excuse to that was “WE DIDN’T SEED ANY OF IT BACK THOUGH” which arguably makes it even worse lol.

        • Aux@feddit.uk
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          It doesn’t. You can download anything you want, distribution is what is illegal and criminal.

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            Downloading is still infringement. Distribution is worse, but I don’t think it’s a criminal matter, still just civil.

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        Technically it was never illegal in the US to download copywritten content. It was illegal to distribute them. That was literally Meta’s defence in court: they didn’t seed any downloads.