[gruez]

>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!

>[...]

>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.

[3eb7988a1663]

My skepticism would stem from the usual corporate firewall scanning. I routinely get blocked going to innocuous things which are on an uncommon domain or are otherwise on some block list. Recently, I could not visit the DuckLake homepage which is on the .select domain.

That torrents and/or porn are not hard blocked is surprising. For the low volume, I suppose anything can get through.

[tgma]

Does FB not have the equivalent of GoogleGuest SSID which is open to public unauthenticated where reachable?

I've certainly downloaded Ubuntu over torrent on that wifi.

[jonny_eh]

Large tech companies rarely block internet access, since internet access is critical for employees at tech companies.