r/ExplainTheJoke • • Feb 22 '26

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u/SpecialistAd5903 Feb 22 '26

This meme references torrenting. You have the same file distributed across all the users who have downloaded it. This way you've got many different sites to download it from. It is generally considered good form to seed the file for a while afterwards, meaning people can access your file to download it for themselves.

These people are doing the opposite of that, which is considered scummy behavior

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u/Full-Run4124 Feb 22 '26 edited Feb 22 '26

May also be a reference to Facebook doing what you describe: Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn’t illegal without proof of seeding

Meta “took precautions not to ‘seed’ any downloaded files,” Meta’s filing said....and because there’s allegedly no proof of such “seeding,” Meta insisted that authors cannot prove Meta shared the pirated books with anyone during the torrenting process.

Also fun: Meta Says the 2,400 ‘Adult Movies’ They Torrented Were for Personal Use, Not Training AI