They also didn’t seed,
Supposedly, Meta tried to conceal the seeding by not using Facebook servers while downloading the dataset to “avoid” the “risk” of anyone “tracing back the seeder/downloader” from Facebook servers, an internal message from Meta researcher Frank Zhang said, while describing the work as in “stealth mode.” Meta also allegedly modified settings “so that the smallest amount of seeding possible could occur,” a Meta executive in charge of project management, Michael Clark, said in a deposition.
My professors aren’t allowed to upload more than 20% of a selected publication or else they get fired, even if the reading is like 20 years old.
Copyright law only exists to punish the working class and rob artists of their work.