Get the latest tech news
Judge rejects Meta's claim that torrenting is “irrelevant” in AI copyright case
Meta may defeat authors’ torrenting claim due to lack of evidence.
But Chhabria dinged authors for citing only an outdated Ars Technica article from 2010 that suggested that people only rarely used torrents to pirate books. They would need to show evidence that AI products dilute markets for their works, which the authors suing Meta failed to do. And if that's true, there's likely little excuse for torrenting of pirated books that authors otherwise had long considered an obvious example of copyright infringement.
Or read this on Hacker News
