Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues * TorrentFreak
In an ongoing lawsuit, Meta now argues that uploading pirated books to strangers via BitTorrent qualifies as fair use.
In 2013 Aaron Swartz committed suicide for facing 35 years in prison for mass downloading scientific articles.
13 years later, Meta is almost getting away with an infraction orders of magnitude larger.
The law didn't change.
torrentfreak.com/uploading-pi...
07.03.2026 20:03
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Every bsky staff member keeps talking about how the goal is Nice Social Media but then the second they're even remotely pushed back against for something shitty, and they immediately crash out for multiple days crying about their subhuman userbase.
05.03.2026 19:34
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Your root password has alphanumeric characters in it. Get pwnd dumbass, just wait till I get uhhhhhhhhh ssh access to your box
05.03.2026 11:33
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So, Macron's stance that US strikes on Iran are in violation of the international law lasted not even two days?
05.03.2026 11:14
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Lobste.rs be like:
Ten people disliked your posts. Consider killing yourself.
05.03.2026 10:58
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Shit was just better before everyone figured out how to style buttons
05.03.2026 00:11
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seems bad
04.03.2026 18:20
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Finally, a way to validate gangstalking paranoia from the hit novel "Don't Validate Gangstalking Paranoia."
04.03.2026 19:16
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Like, you don't necessarily *need* to directly finance a racist politician's campaign, if you can flood the zone with news about scary brown people, so that the voters will stochastically go look for the most racist candidate.
04.03.2026 22:54
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I have a serious question. Not a troll.
Are there any countries like that?
I am not really aware of any. Some are less bad, but the wealth inequality is growing pretty much everywhere, and the democracy is being heavily influenced by propaganda, the ability to produce which directly relates to money
04.03.2026 22:50
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Or better yet, the server software should be available together with the game.
04.03.2026 22:33
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They don't serve you. You are a kindergartener forever. They don't let you enter bars, you can't get a bank account, you can't vote.
04.03.2026 21:43
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you don't need accountability if you are under what for an adult would be considered house arrest
04.03.2026 21:26
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The numbers that pop into my head are 4, 2, ?, 80 children
04.03.2026 21:02
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Similarly, am I the only one who's annoyed by the miniquest I have to undertake whenever I want to see the "to" address? When did that start being standard in every email app?
> To: me
Yeah no shit? That's crazy.
But is it professional me, online me, middle-school-spam-email me, or what?
04.03.2026 16:57
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Hiding the email addresses from the email app smells of a decision made by a techbro, who thinks everyone too stupid to understand what an email address is
04.03.2026 20:55
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No. Kindergarteners get 20 minutes a day on the ipad and have near-zero amounts of autonomy.
04.03.2026 20:51
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I think we should raise the age of adulthood based on how much money your parents have. And if your dad is like Jeff Bezos, you have to just spend your entire life treated as a kindergartner.
04.03.2026 14:34
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Vivaldi's Android version has a more pleasant UI than Firefox, but 1password for some reason doesn't want to work in it. Apparently you can install chrome extensions, but that requires logging into a Google account and I'd like avoid doing that.
04.03.2026 14:21
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make America free from LoL question mark
04.03.2026 13:08
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ΠΡΠΎΠ±Π»Π΅ΠΌΠ° Ρ ΠΏΠΎΡ
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04.03.2026 11:37
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I think they are asking about a situation where the quality target has risen above what the vertical slice targeted.
04.03.2026 11:15
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Not my experience. All I can think about is how abhorrently bad TES6 will be.
04.03.2026 11:06
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alt(ernative)(fem)oids?
alt(right)oids?
chat, am I cooked
04.03.2026 10:58
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Wasteland? Yeah that's where we will be living in if we keep wasting power on armies of cybermonkeys with typewriters.
04.03.2026 10:49
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smh i could only be more disgusted if i found out the skeets were null terminated on the wire
04.03.2026 01:58
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> compiler
> look inside
> queries
04.03.2026 01:42
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Why the fuck would changing the size of the payload change the lexicon what the actual fuck, is atproto actually worse than activity pub?
04.03.2026 01:41
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Umm ackshually, the optimal approach would be for bsky to just start allowing longer posts
04.03.2026 01:38
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