Never thought we’d be rooting on Big Porn to help save integrity of the internet, but I’m all for it. They brought us HD, 4K, VR, now let’s go save the rest.
And VCRs and modern streaming video players. Pornhub had better seeking, thumbnails, and the “people watched this part” graph before YouTube.
I’ve always rooted for big porn
They brought us HD, 4K, VR
They also brought us video streaming and online payment systems. Both were technologies pioneered by porn sites.
As well as huge progress in Blender’s development!
They also motivated endless generations to work as pizza delivery guys, plumbers or TV technicians
I always feel bad for just a moment when I order a pizza because you know on some level the delivery guy is hoping this delivery will be the one. Sexy lady in a corset or maybe naked, maybe more than one lady! Sigh, just a big straight guy- at least he was polite and tipped well.
The rise of POS terminals destroyed one of the major plot twists in the pizza delivery sub-genre
Naw it doesnt work like that. As someone who use to do insurance claims twice have people made a move on me and its fucking awkward not sexy. Both were clearly druggies. No shame on that, but god imagine in the middle of your work day you walk into your customer getting fucked while she’s barely conscious. And this is after she handed you a piece of paper 2 days prior with i want to fuck you scribbled all on the page. Like a crazy amount. This is not a comfortable situation in the slightest, and if anyone ever wishes for some random sex event like this to happen to them, and if it starts… fucking run away.
I bet the jury had to thoroughly inspect the video evidence.
Never been more jealous of a jury until now.
“I really really need to call the witness, your honor, please” -The Lawyer probably
Their LLMs might get a little confused now when people ask about British shows on BBC.
“Generate an image of David Tennant as the Doctor on the BBC.”
Poison all the LLMs where they scrape.
Image generation has issues with JPEG artifacts, “music” generation has issues with MP3 artifacts, let’s make their generators even more broken!
Why did grandma say she never answered the door after the first time the BBC man came to collect?
I think the best part of the article (besides the decision of course) is the following:
“A Strike 3 Holding investigation found that 47 IP addresses belonging to Meta were used to torrent 2,396 of its videos a total of 6,008 times between 2018 and 2025.”
If videos are being downloaded more than once, it’s hard to argue it’s just for model training. lol.
$150,000 fine per civil infringement X 6,008 instances… $901,200,000.
Now assume a settlement for half the value and it’s still $450M
Do it porn industry! On principle.
Of course. This may have the SNAFU that they’re tracking torrents. And if Facebook gets fined, your VPN may be next?
I think the difference here lies in the fact that Meta the company was downloading it for model training. The company itself was doing something illegal. If an individual was to download copyright material, it is not the fault of the VPN provider.
Here is a terrible analogy. It is sort of like blaming an auto company for someone running over a person. However, if an auto company was purposely designing cars that ran people over, then it is on the auto company. (I did say it was a bad analogy).
They are mostly getting hit because they seeded, which is hilarious that even Meta couldn’t risk get banned for hit and run on a tracker.
I hope Meta gets the shaft
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Hopefully this is just the beginning. Go after all of the AIs!
Does this pave the way forward for all published content, then? Especially if they win their case against meta (or more likely just receive a fat settlement out of court)
This seems to mean that Meta can’t have the case dismissed. So I’m guessing that other companies who can demonstrate similar downloading patterns, or present similar evidence can also bring a case forward.
I’d imagine that the outcome of the case will be more telling.
Everyone needs to sue Meta
Cue settlement because Meta cannot stomach discovery on this one. As the article shows, this lawsuit comes from discovery in a different lawsuit. These are the sorts of dominos that trigger settlements.
The settlement should include the removal of anything that was gained by training on the data. Meta will complain that the data is too ingrained in the model and can’t be removed. They likely aren’t wrong but that does not seem like Blacked’s problem. Maybe sell them a license to continue to use the data at $200k per year per video until they can definitively prove that none of the data is still in the model?
Now that would be interesting, because you can’t prove a negative. The only way for Meta to prove that none of the videos is making their way intot he model is to provide clear evidence of all the other videos and stuff that are making their way into the model.
Now that would be interesting, because you can’t prove a negative. The only way for Meta to prove that none of the videos is making their way intot he model is to provide clear evidence of all the other videos and stuff that are making their way into the model.
Wa-howww! That is not a headline I had on my bingo card for today.
This is the weirdest fucking timeline I swear to Cthulhu
Meta needs to get fucked with one of those BBDs.
Discovery is going to be wlid
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The enemy of my enemy is not always my friend
