Meta Says the 2,400 'Adult Movies' They Torrented Were for Personal Use
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Re: Meta Says the 2,400 'Adult Movies' They Torrented Were for Personal Use
#2Use the dirty-net next time the non-meta ASN for doing pentesting. Every company should route non-essential traffic out alternate circuits to keep their employee IP addresses and behavior out of logs that point back to their employer. This does not preclude scrubbing the traffic with ones DLP, MitM proxies, etc... Its just another route. Keep YT and porn off the corporate circuits. Maybe even go so far as to have multiple SNAT pools for different categories of non-work related content. Make the dirty-net the default routes and only route meta-destine networks over the corporate specific networks.
I set up something like this ages ago in a company that was acquired by a company run by a literal mobster. I had a 1U server with two interfaces that routed my coworkers out a path that bypassed the mob monitored devices. To the uppers it just appeared my coworkers were really dedicated and not wasting time on Youtube, LinkedIn, Facebook, etc...
Re: Meta Says the 2,400 'Adult Movies' They Torrented Were for Personal Use
#3You gotta hand it to Meta, that's one creative defense. "Sorry your honor, our entire engineering team are certified gooners. We have documentation."
Re: Meta Says the 2,400 'Adult Movies' They Torrented Were for Personal Use
#4"Only in the world of AI algorithm training can you claim that you were torrenting 2,400 porn videos for personal use and have that seem like the lesser of two evils."
What happened to Vice?
Is it a private equity content mill now? (a la newsweek, ex-gawker properties)
(I'm asking because moralizing about torrenting porn is not a very 2010s vice thing, and I lost track of it)
Re: Meta Says the 2,400 'Adult Movies' They Torrented Were for Personal Use
#5You gotta hand it to Meta, that's one creative defense. "Sorry your honor, our entire engineering team are certified gooners. We have documentation."
I can remember at least one incident when someone on the bus from SF to campus was actually watching porn on their laptop. IDK if they were torrenting it at home or at work, but there were many emails about not streaming content on the shuttle bus WiFi.
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#6"Only in the world of AI algorithm training can you claim that you were torrenting 2,400 porn videos for personal use and have that seem like the lesser of two evils." What happened to Vice? Is it a private equity content mill now? (a la newsweek, ex-gawker properties) (I'm asking because moralizing about torrenting porn is not a very 2010s vice thing, and I lost track of it)
It’s owned by private equity, per wikipedia.
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#7Re: Meta Says the 2,400 'Adult Movies' They Torrented Were for Personal Use
#8This is funny, but from the article it also seems like a pretty frivolous law suit that is more of a shakedown racket than protecting the actual business.
From the article: this amounts to only about 20 videos per year and the evidence is based on home IP addresses of employees. Such as: “The father of a Meta contractor whose home IP address allegedly downloaded 97 videos. Strike 3 suggests this links Meta to more infringement. Meta counters that it only proves someone’s dad is super into porn and has no VPN”.
Pretty weak evidence of any malfeasance on Meta’s part.
Re: Meta Says the 2,400 'Adult Movies' They Torrented Were for Personal Use
#9You gotta hand it to Meta, that's one creative defense. "Sorry your honor, our entire engineering team are certified gooners. We have documentation."
> unlike lawsuits raised by book authors whose works are part of an enormous dataset used to train AI, the activity on Meta’s corporate IP addresses only amounted to about 22 downloads per year
It's an entertaining headline, but it actually seems legit rather than a creative legal defense.
Re: Meta Says the 2,400 'Adult Movies' They Torrented Were for Personal Use
#10>Meta, naturally, argues that no! No! That porn was, uh…it was for personal use! Yeah, it was for…me, and not for large-scale copyright infringement!
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>Meta’s motion to dismiss the case calls Strike 3’s torrent-tracking “guesswork and innuendo” and argues the supposed downloads, which are roughly 22 per year, are too few to have any use in training AI. If anything, the company says, that pattern looks less like corporate malfeasance and more like “private personal use.”
The article seems skeptical of Meta, but their defense seems... fairly reasonable? They have hundreds of thousands of employees, so the prospect of all of them combined accidentally torrenting 22 porn movies per year without a VPN doesn't seem too implausible.