like literally too, 20k films at let's say 30m average is 400+ continuous, unbroken days worth of content

and I assume this was just for content from Reality Labs. god knows how much other torrenting was done outside of Reality Labs IP

Around that same time my own brother was working at the second largest record label in the world and their own servers were hacked and serving about 1/3 of global warez downloads.

Law enforcement didn’t get involved and nobody did shit about it.

Not even the last time that company was massively hacked. ;)

I mean basically that. If you hit a corporate IP, unless they have flow level logging or you have very extensive timestamps, then the game ends, company says they've enacted new training or controls, but they can't identify a specific person and it's not their fault.

Essentially - this is not a suggestion.

Residential ip's map to a specific person, and it's a lot harder for them to deflect and say I'm not responsible for my own Internet connection

It had to be more complicated than simple copyright infringement for the cops to get involved.

This is crazy. Worked at a national ISP/telecom and one of the directors openly had a seedbox and was torrenting massive amount of things. Chalked it up as the poors being held to different standards as this person had a close relationship with one of the executives.

Mate, I got rejected by Cambridge University.

I've lived in and around Cambridge for a very long time now. I've met a lot of Cambridge undergrads and graduates. Let me tell you: they are a mixed bag.

Don't misunderstand me: there are some very smart people at Cambridge University. Very smart indeed. And I think if you took any cohort from Cambridge Uni versus a similar cohort from another university you'd certainly find that, against most universities, the Cambridge cohort would be smarter on average. In fact the place is genuinely awash with very smart people literally everywhere.

But that doesn't mean there aren't plenty of people that went to Cambridge who clearly found a way to blag their way through the interview process that may not have been particularly closely correlated with their intellect. The same will be true of Meta, Google, etc. I swear, the interview processes at these companies are probably more of a sop to the egos of company leadership and people who already work there than they are any more effective at filtering down to good talent than less byzantine and overwrought hiring processes.

You just have to make your peace with it.

I worked there for years. I assure you, based on my experience, that there are a lot of dumb people there making > $500k/year.

This person is supposedly an executive. I doubt most executive could pass an FAANG technical interview.

They are, they probably just did slightly better at regurgitating leetcode problems than you

Did you apply for the VR porn training team?

It’s a massive company, with more than 75k employees. At that scale you have to have a lot of dumb people

I wouldn’t, lack of moral fiber is a key factor they look for

It's even worse that they overpay people who do this type of thing while at work.

How is their network security that lax? I feel like if I tried run a torrent at work, netops would be hunting my ass down immediately.

Does anyone honestly believe that Zuck doesn't have his own history with filesharing? Any computer nerd from that time would have deep knowledge of filesharing.

Who'd have thought a Meta exec would be arrogant enough to assume they can get away with this (!!). /s

Why was torrenting needed anyway? Meta could’ve easily reached out to adult media providers to work on VR headset compatibility under an NDA. Or hired a third party contractor to do it.

What is the moral difference between training on porn vs other genres of media?

I suspect their goal is to train a model for detecting adult material, so that they can block it, which isn't necessarily an amoral goal