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

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_trampeltier 32 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Just never ever ask how they train the models for CSAM.

	▲	infinite_spin 30 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I'm not a fan of joking about those efforts. The people doing that work to catch predators and prevent their evil from reaching the general public are heroes.

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cucumber3732842 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

"Guys we can't sell a VR headset that doesn't do porn good, nobody will buy it" seems just as likely to me.

	▲	infinite_spin 35 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I don't follow your logic, VR headsets are fully capable of displaying 3D scenes. That's a solved problem.

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overtone1000 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

But would still be a copyright violation

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infinite_spin 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm not a lawyer, but in my view copyright violations center around distribution, not necessarily the method by which a work is obtained

e.g. if someone is reciting a poem they wrote in a public park, and I make a recording of that recitation, I have not violated their copyright in doing so, however I might violate their copyright by reconstructing that poem and then distributing it

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irthomasthomas 23 minutes ago | parent [-]

Which is why torrenting is the dumbest way to do this, since every downloader is also an uploader. That is what gets torrenters locked up. It is possible to leach only, but its not the default mode, and if this guy was broadcasting his IP address, then he was seeding... distributing.

	▲	infinite_spin 21 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		You expose your IP address even when not seeding, and I don't know if this person was seeding these torrents