schizoidman@lemmy.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoNvidia accused of trying to cut a deal with Anna’s Archive for high‑speed access to the massive pirated book haul — allegedly chased stolen data to fuel its LLMswww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square54fedilinkarrow-up1538arrow-down17 cross-posted to: piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
arrow-up1531arrow-down1external-linkNvidia accused of trying to cut a deal with Anna’s Archive for high‑speed access to the massive pirated book haul — allegedly chased stolen data to fuel its LLMswww.tomshardware.comschizoidman@lemmy.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square54fedilink cross-posted to: piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
minus-squareFaceDeer@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up42arrow-down1·2 days agoSeems strange. Anna’s Archive makes their collection available for bulk download as torrent files, they shouldn’t need to “cut a deal” for access to that. Just download the torrent and now you’ve got the whole collection available locally.
minus-squarenialv7@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up33·2 days agoThey do provide direct access to their books for business who are willing to pay.
minus-squareFaceDeer@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down1·2 days agoWhich, as I said, seems strange. Why don’t those businesses just download the torrents?
minus-squareimecth@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up28·2 days agoSome businesses did in fact do just that.
minus-squareFaceDeer@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up23·2 days agoAh, low numbers of seeds. Must’ve just not wanted to wait.
Seems strange. Anna’s Archive makes their collection available for bulk download as torrent files, they shouldn’t need to “cut a deal” for access to that. Just download the torrent and now you’ve got the whole collection available locally.
They do provide direct access to their books for business who are willing to pay.
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Which, as I said, seems strange. Why don’t those businesses just download the torrents?
Some businesses did in fact do just that.
Ah, low numbers of seeds. Must’ve just not wanted to wait.
Fucking hit and run lmao