Sad to say the title is clickbait. The only evidence the plaintiffs have that meta pirated their work for AI training is that a bunch of it was pirated from IPs belonging to Meta. Meta is arguing that this is insufficient evidence as it’s more likely that a bunch of individuals with access to Meta IPs downloaded the videos for their own personal use. Given the very small amount of downloads and how spread out they were, I have to reluctantly side with them.
How would they even get a Meta IP?
Like most offices, they have an open network that anyone can use so they’re arguing passers-by, delivery persons, visitors and such. I’m more inclined to believe it was employees but still.
What if my network is open to everyone and someone pirates something using my IP? I would assume I’d be held accountable because I’m responsible for my network?
Probably shouldn’t be, but probably wouldn’t stop your ISP from taking action. I remember this attempt at a “movement” a decade or so ago; never caught on: openwireless.org.
Sad to say the title is clickbait. The only evidence the plaintiffs have that meta pirated their work for AI training is that a bunch of it was pirated from IPs belonging to Meta. Meta is arguing that this is insufficient evidence as it’s more likely that a bunch of individuals with access to Meta IPs downloaded the videos for their own personal use. Given the very small amount of downloads and how spread out they were, I have to reluctantly side with them.
Like most offices, they have an open network that anyone can use so they’re arguing passers-by, delivery persons, visitors and such. I’m more inclined to believe it was employees but still.
What if my network is open to everyone and someone pirates something using my IP? I would assume I’d be held accountable because I’m responsible for my network?
Probably shouldn’t be, but probably wouldn’t stop your ISP from taking action. I remember this attempt at a “movement” a decade or so ago; never caught on: openwireless.org.
According to the case cited by Meta, no you wouldn’t.