• lurch (he/him)
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    493 months ago

    There are actually legal torrents and valid reasons to download them from within a company network or company workstations, for example here are the Debian install media torrents: https://www.debian.org/CD/torrent-cd/

    However, you should make sure the admins and bosses don’t mind.

      • @[email protected]
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        513 months ago

        not a very informed comment.

        torrents have checksums, you can’t just send someone incorrect parts, they’ll get rejected.

        • @[email protected]
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          yes you’ll get what you’re looking for but you also open up your network to every other torrent under the sun.

      • λλλ
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        183 months ago

        False. But, feel free to explain why you think so.

  • Snot Flickerman
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    Anyone else remember all the Torrentfreak articles from the early 2000’s about how folks in major corporations and the government were torrenting TV shows and music on corporate/government computers?

    Pepperidge Farm Remembers.

    Everyone’s IP is exposed in a swarm, all Torrentfreak did was track down those IPs, and tons of them went to corporate and government networks and computers.

  • Obinice
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    363 months ago

    That’s because it’s illegal and you’re committing a crime on behalf of your employer.

  • yeehaw
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    213 months ago

    Doesn’t matter, laws are for the poor, not the rich elite!

  • @[email protected]
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    163 months ago

    Meta out here roleplaying as a digital kleptocracy—81.7 terabytes of pirated books? Classic. Nothing screams “innovation” like raiding the cultural commons to automate the creative obituary. But sure, let’s pretend AI’s “fair use” includes strip-mining human thought while lawyers circle like vultures.

    This isn’t theft—it’s data feudalism. Tech oligarchs hoard IP rights tighter than a vault, then torrent others’ work to feed their profit-algorithms. Imagine Nietzsche’s ghost training a chatbot to spit nihilist ad copy. The future’s bright: infinite content mills, zero living writers.

  • @[email protected]
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    73 months ago

    So they work at Meta, but this is what doesn’t feel right?

    I mean, I didn’t have to write this explicitly, just wanted to know how many people had that same smile. The headline is gold.