• Miles O'Brien@startrek.website
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      1 day ago

      They stated they didn’t break piracy laws because they downloaded a shitload of books for their LLM and didn’t seed any.

      Torrents are downloaded by “leeches” and put out for download by “seeders”

      A proper ratio of what you downloaded to what you allow others to download should be 1:1 if you’re not a dick. (1gb downloaded means you need to upload 1gb to other users for 1:1) but if you don’t seed at ALL or if you only seed bare minimum to keep downloading things, you’re called a Leech, and derogatorily. Because you didn’t seed.

      So they’re stating “we didn’t break the law, we’re just leeches!”