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#torrenting — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #torrenting, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Tom’s Hardware: Meta defends using pirated material, claims it’s legal if you don’t seed content. “Meta claimed in a court filing this week that despite torrenting an 82 TB dataset of pirated, copyrighted material from shadow libraries to train its LLaMA AI models, that employees ‘took precautions not to “seed” any downloaded files’. The act of Seeding in torrenting terminology refers to […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/23/toms-hardware-meta-defends-using-pirated-material-claims-its-legal-if-you-dont-seed-content/

  2. TorrentFreak: ‘Meta Torrented over 81 TB of Data Through Anna’s Archive, Despite Few Seeders’. “Freshly unsealed court documents reveal that Meta downloaded significant amounts of data from shadow libraries through Anna’s Archive. The company’s use of BitTorrent was already known, but internal email communication reveals sources and terabytes of downloaded data, as well as a struggle […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/07/torrentfreak-meta-torrented-over-81-tb-of-data-through-annas-archive-despite-few-seeders/

  3. @alternativeto for anyone looking, an #alternative for depending on a #website to #streamanimefree , I would remind you that #torrenting exists, and would reccomend #miru or #migu they are both easy, just mostly work applications to strictly stream #anime it has integration with #anilist and is #OpenSource #software

    github.com/NoCrypt/migu

  4. @augustus
    ^^^ This. But the websites are often not as "Russian" as you might think. *coughflare*

    Some people use #VPNs, but they seem redundant/questionable. Tor and #torrenting over #I2P is a preference of ours these days.

    (As an aside, we can't speak for the BBC productions recently but we like to mention an #AdamCurtis documentary produced mostly pre-911, titled #TheCenturyOfTheSelf (4x 1 hr episodes) and available on invidious instances via:

    INVIDIOUS_URL/watch?v=DnPmg0R1M04
    )