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Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn't illegal without proof of seeding
Meta’s copyright defense may hinge on court ignorance of torrenting terminology.
Once this information came to light, authors asked the court for a chance to depose Meta executives again, alleging that new facts "contradict prior deposition testimony." "Had Meta bought Plaintiffs’ works in a bookstore or borrowed them from a library and then trained its LLMs on them without a license, it would have committed copyright infringement, but no CDAFA violation," the authors alleged. "Meta’s decision to bypass lawful acquisition methods and become a knowing participant in an illegal peer-to-peer piracy network provides the 'extra element' and is 'qualitatively different' to establish an independent CDAFA violation."
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