When you play a “brass” style instrument (trumpet, tuba, trombone, didgeridoo, vuvuzela, etc) you don’t just blow into it, you press your lips together like for a kiss, and then buzz them. If you do a small, very fast and tight buzz, you get high pitched notes. If you do a looser, flappier buzz, you get low notes. Most people can get about 3 to 5 notes this way, which is why most brass instruments have slides or valves to adjust the airflow and change the note further.
Funny enough for calling this a sax-hybrid, saxophones and other woodwind instruments use a small piece of flat wood called a reed to create the vibrations needed for notes. These mostly only make one note though, which is why sax, flute, clarinet, and so on need so many buttons.
A “peer” in bittorrent is someone else who is downloading the same file as you. This is opposed to a “seeder” which is also a peer but is only sending data, no longer receiving.
You don’t have to finish the file to share it though, that’s a major part of bittorrent. Each peer shares parts of the files that they’ve partially downloaded already. So Meta didn’t need to finish and share the whole file to have technically shared some parts of copyrighted works. Unless they just had uploading completely disabled, but they still “reproduced” those works by vectorizing them into an LLM. If Gemini can reproduce a copyrighted work “from memory” then that still counts.
Now, to be clear, fuck Meta but also fuck this argument. By the same logic, almost any computer on the internet is guilty of copyright infringement. Proxy servers, VPNs, basically any compute that routed those packets temporarily had (or still has for caches, logs, etc) copies of that protected data.
I don’t think copyrights and open global networks are compatible concepts in the long run. I wonder which the ruling class will destroy first? (Spoilers, how “open” is the internet anymore?)