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Fuck #Meta :fuck_face:

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their Al models. In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.
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Aaron war ein toller Mensch, und er hätte viel für die Menscheit tuen können. Ich sehe es als globale Sünde, das man ihn in den Selbstmord getrieben hatt. ❤️ 🙏
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For anyone who doesn't know Aaron, I really recommend watching this docu about him

And yes, at this point i don't care anymore if this docu is legal or illegal on YT

youtube.com/watch?v=3Q6Fzbgs_L…

- YouTube

Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
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Nevar23
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Thanks! I'd never seen that. This particular link has some audio censorship shenanigans due to the mention of "suicide" toward the end, but I was able to find another YT link that doesn't edit it out. youtube.com/watch?v=9vz06QO3Uk…

The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz | full movie (2014)

This is the FULL MOVIE! - The Internet's Own Boy depicts the life of American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist Aaron Sw...
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romicci
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never heard of that story but I’ll definitely check this out , thanks !
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Chris Lael
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I guess Zuckerberg being Elon Trump's sub has its benefits.
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Patrick Schmitz
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and the sad part is that they will get away with it, especially in the US.
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David Dively
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When 1 person does it, jail. When an exciting new disruptive corp does it, it’s okay.
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FallsMom 🌻
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Thanks for posting this. I'm not especially techie, so I'm learning things here. . . . Good, bad, and sad 😔
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Archivarius
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I wonder if Aaron's judge, Carmen Ortiz, will have the guts to punish the Meta in the same way
"Stealing is stealing. Whether you use a computer.command or a crowbar, and whether you take documents, data, or dollars.”
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ZAC
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Just reinforcement of the saying "The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer". If you are WHITE and RICH you can get away with anything.
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Beachbum
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Happy to see truth getting out. I did warn people back, then that it was piracy to download, but nobody listen to me. Sometimes greed overtakes our mental capacity to be rational. Case in point #ZuckTheSchmuck #Muskrat #Bezos #LarryPage #SergeyBrin
#bezos #muskrat #sergeybrin #LarryPage #zucktheschmuck
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Alerta! Alerta!
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Why is it relevant what they use it for?

Did they have a permission to download it? If not it was illegal.

If so, I hope they signed the contract with blood and it cost Zuck jr.

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There exists a group photo of Aaron Swarz and Zuckerberg at MIT. Same story, different intents, different outcomes. Sadly not the good intention had the better outcome.
Edit: It was Sam Altman. But the point still remains. mamutovo.cz/@Razemix/113978218…

Radomír Žemlička (@Razemix@mamutovo.cz)

Attached: 1 image @TheAlgorythm@chaos.social @stux@mstdn.social That would be Sam Altman (OpenAI), not Zuck.
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whitefish
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burn the tech companies 🔥put them to jail! All of them!
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Phracker
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That's fiscal conservatism for you - Corporations should have all the rights of human beings, but none of the responsibilities.
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Quantum
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That is the world we live in. The state is the henchman of big capital and will utterly destroy any ordinary citizen who is deemed a threat to the income of big capital. A very educational film on that matter.
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writermonki
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the difference is that Aaron wanted to make public research free, and Meta wanted to make a profit.
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Con deepl lo traduje al español
Meta descargó ilegalmente más de 80 terabytes de libros de LibGen, Anna's Archive y Z-library para entrenar sus modelos Al. En 2010, Aaron Swartz descargó sólo 70 GB de artículos de JSTOR (0,0875% de Meta). Se enfrentaba a una multa de un millón de dólares y 35 años de cárcel. Se quitó la vida en 2013.
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a fish named dog ✡️♾️
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His website is still up at aaronsw.com.

Among other things, he co-authored RSS at 14, cocreated Open Library and Reddit, was influential in Creative Commons, and founded Demand Progress. All of this in his too-short twenty-six years on this planet.

Aaron Hillel Swartz, may his memory be for a blessing.

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Sassinake! - ⊃∪∩⪽
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should have paid the fine and bribed a few other politicians, like High-Class people do.
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kcoyle checking the perimeter
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I’m not sure why you would say it’s illegal. Anna’s makes everything open for downloading and opposes copyright. The authors of those works could object but they would also very much object to Anna’s having “illegal “ copies and making them available outside of any protection.
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valnum
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we will never forget him. Thank you for the reminder. He's our martyr.
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doragasu
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And this could be said of every company training LLMs.
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ˈdälfən™🐬 💥 🌊
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Oh… THAT’S what Meta did (I had read random comments online, but wasn’t sure what they did and then got distracted by the avalanche of news coming at me.)

Ugh… that’s freaking HORRIBLE!

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stux⚡
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@funbaker Copyright bullshit 😉
@funbaker; Je suis Antifa
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Bartek Kuchnowski
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And isn't the result kinda...pathetic? You steal one of the largest libraries, an inconceivable amount of human knowledge, brilliant ideas, beautiful art and make... this? A digital parrot that is often wrong, but when it's right, it's kinda good?
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Makes you wonder about the utility of IP a little... if corporations disregard others' IP (ie. Everything on the Internet) then perhaps we do away with IP altogether. Or greatly reduce copyright protections in favor of copyleft perhaps.

#NoTechBros #enshittification

#enshittification #notechbros
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I hope the prosecutors in this case end up loosing a trans grandchildren to suicide.
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yup that is a tragic story. and Aaron helped inventing great things like Rss feeds, and did not published the downloaded articles, and was not helped by his university to counter the harassment from elsevier. v_v
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MidniteMikeWrites
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Asymmetric enforcement of property rights is absolutely not a mistake. It's core to how capitalist competition functions. zirk.us/@MidniteMikeWrites/113…

MidniteMikeWrites (@MidniteMikeWrites@zirk.us)

Attached: 1 image @dgfitch@kolektiva.social @KarlSchroeder@mastodon.social A lot of people view the cruelty of capitalism as just a straight forward consequence of market incentives: profit maximization, arbitrage of information asymmetry, etc.
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Spark Purcell (they/them)
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what Aaron did should never have been illegal. Piracy should not be illegal, if it's not for profit. Piracy is preservation. Anna's archive should not be illegal. Libraries should be protected.
But meta is doing it for profit. That's completely different. That's exploitative. Big distinction.
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The purpose entirely different. Aaron wanted the knowledge to be free to be used for furthering human intellectual advancement and enrichment. AI is going to replace and never credit the ownership of anything. No citing of sources, no scholarly notations, just amalgam of secretive manufactured output inevitable owned by someone.
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PKs Powerfromspace1
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more of commentary on a failed politically compromised justice system
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Tim
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I only downloaded like 3 gigs or something, but somehow, and I agree. I'm the worst.
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Lord Caramac the Clueless, KSC
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I've got a few hundred gigabytes of pirated PDFs and EPUBs lying around, more than half of that scientific publications, mostly due to that fact that those are full of images. The sheer number of files in the fictional literature directories is larger by several orders of magnitude, but since pure text compresses down to next to nothing, the entire Dune series, J R R Tolkien's collected works, even the entire Discworld series, all take up no more than a few megabytes each, while a single scientific book is often more than 100MB due to all those images. PDFs about biology are often larger than those about Physics because there are more high resolution photographs and much fewer simple vector graphics.
So the sheer data volume doesn't tell us much about how many pieces of text we're dealing with, how many papers, magazines, books. It could be huge libraries of fiction, history, politics, or philosophy, or it could be just a few books on botany or zoology with a lot of HR photographs.
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Travis Scott
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you have courts of law not justice. They want you to play fair since they never will
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How many of the people agreeing to that it's a outrage are still using Meta?
How many are still using Meta and simply ignored all the previous violations the company performed?

Bigots.

Btw, the thread's discussion is maily about Aaron, which is not the main topic. See how fast people get distracted.

It's about Meta's THEFT and copyright violation, not about Aaron (RIP)!

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meta being a leecher on Anna's Archive is meta not only being above the law, but also the worst kind of pirate, using a ton of bandwidth, causing cost, but for no good reason. a bad actor, in every senses that word can have, for everyone except itself
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many complains in comment, but why no collective judge complain on meta?
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Some noteworthy books by Aaron Swartz and about him

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#AaronSwartz
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The Writings of Aaron Swartz In his too-short life, Aaron Swartz reshaped the Internet, questioned our assumptions about intellectual property, and touched all of us in ways that we may not even realize. His tragic suicide in 2013 at the age of twenty-six after being aggressively prosecuted for copyright infringement shocked the nation and the world. Here for the first time in print is revealed the quintessential Aaron Swartz: besides being a technical genius and a passionate activist, he was also an insightful, compelling, and cutting essayist. With a technical understanding of the Internet and of intellectual property law surpassing that of many seasoned professionals, he wrote thoughtfully and humorously about intellectual property, copyright, and the architecture of the Internet. He wrote as well about unexpected topics such as pop culture, politics both electoral and idealistic, dieting, and lifehacking. Including three in-depth and previously unpublished essays.
Aaron Swartz and The Rise of Free Culture on The Internet This smart, “riveting” (Los Angeles Times) history of the Internet free culture movement and its larger effects on society—and the life and shocking suicide of Aaron Swartz, a founding developer of Reddit and Creative Commons—written by Slate correspondent Justin Peters “captures Swartz flawlessly” (The New York Times Book Review). Aaron Swartz was a zealous young advocate for the free exchange of information and creative content online. He committed suicide in 2013 after being indicted by the government for illegally downloading millions of academic articles from a nonprofit online database. From the age of fifteen, when Swartz, a computer prodigy, worked with Lawrence Lessig to launch Creative Commons, to his years as a fighter for copyright reform and open information, to his work leading the protests against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), to his posthumous status as a cultural icon, Swartz’s life was inextricably connected to the free culture movement. Now Justin Peters examines Swartz’s life in the context of 200 years of struggle over the control of information. The Idealist is “an excellent survey of the intellectual property battlefield, and a sobering memorial to its most tragic victim” (The Boston Globe) and an essential look at the impact of the free culture movement on our daily lives and on generations to come.
Guerilla Open Access Manifesto Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations. Want to read the papers featuring the most famous results of the sciences? You'll need to send enormous amounts to publishers like Reed Elsevier. There are those struggling to change this. The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it. But even under the best scenarios, their work will only apply to things published in the future. Everything up until now will have been lost. That is too high a price to pay. Forcing academics to pay money to read the work of their colleagues? Scanning entire libraries but only allowing the folks at Google to read them? Providing scientific articles to those at elite universities in the First World, but not to children in the Global South? It's outrageous and unacceptable. “I agree," many say, "but what can we do? The companies hold the copyrights, they make enormous amounts of money by charging for access, and it's perfectly legal — there's nothing we can do to stop them." But there is something we can, something that's already being done, we can fight back.
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iirc about the same time evil began to rise exponentially.
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obviously since scumbags always have more rights than normal people.
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aaronsw was an acquaintance in real, and we had exchanged emails and were FB friends.

He was principled, charming, talented, and much loved.

But he was also entitled and arrogant.

MIT blocked his access to JSTOR passively a number of times and he kept working around ip blocks, etc.

MIT had very good surveillance abilities, when we had a compromised guest laptop at One Laptop per Child IS&T called me in like 5 minutes and told me you have five minutes to get this off the net.


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