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Meta Says it Made Sure Not to Seed Any Pirated Books
In an AI lawsuit targeting Meta, authors claim the company used BitTorrent to share books from shadow library LibGen with third parties.
Just last week, a Delaware federal court denied a motion for summary judgment based on fair use in a case between Thomson Reuters and Ross Intelligence, reversing an earlier decision. “By downloading through the bit torrent protocol, Meta knew it was facilitating further copyright infringement by acting as a distribution point for other users of pirated books.” In a supporting reply filed on Tuesday, the company notes that the ‘torrenting’ allegations, relating to the removal of copyright information and the CDAFA violations, don’t hold up.
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