Meta Says it Made Sure Not to Seed Any Pirated Books * TorrentFreak
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In an AI lawsuit targeting Meta, authors claim the company used BitTorrent to share books from shadow library LibGen with third parties.

In one of the AI lawsuits faced by Meta, the company stands accused of distributing pirated books. The authors who filed the class-action lawsuit allege that Meta shared books from the shadow library LibGen with third parties via BitTorrent. Meta, however, says that it took precautions to prevent ‘seeding’ content. In addition, the company clarifies that there is nothing ‘independently illegal’ about torrenting.

  • Moonrise2473@feddit.itEnglish
    76·
    2 days ago

    Where now are the copyright trolls that sued regular students for millions of dollars for downloading 30 songs?

    Under federal law, the recording companies were entitled to $750 to $30,000 per infringement. But the law allows as much as $150,000 per track if the jury finds the infringements were willful.

    Let me see:

    • At least 100 million of books pirated
    • infringements were willful

    So, a 15k billion dollars fine seem appropriate to give to Meta AND criminal sentences to all the c suite.

    Or: apply the same rules to regular people and allow unlimited copyright violations without consequences

    • quirzle@lemmy.zipEnglish
      21·
      2 days ago

      Joel Tenenbaum, of Providence, admitted in court that he downloaded and distributed 30 songs.

      Your example is exactly why meta didn’t seed.

      • Moonrise2473@feddit.itEnglish
        15·
        2 days ago

        It’s a weak defense because the clients still exchanged metadata with other clients, plus there’s the big issue of using the copyrighted works for their own profit, and not just archiving/preservation/personal use

        • quirzle@lemmy.zipEnglish
          8·
          2 days ago

          It’s a solid defense, since the lawsuit’s about the sharing of the books. The metadata of the torrents isn’t part of the relevant IP, and how they used the content they downloaded is a separate issue.