Meta hopes SCOTUS piracy ruling will help it beat lawsuit over torrenting AI data

Meta hopes SCOTUS piracy ruling will help it beat lawsuit over torrenting AI data

Judge gave authors an easier attack on Meta’s torrenting. Meta hopes SCOTUS ruling will block it.

Meta Accused of Using BitTorrent to Pirate Books — And a Federal Judge Just Let the Case Move Forward

A federal judge in California has allowed some of the most damaging claims against Meta Platforms to proceed in a copyright lawsuit that alleges the tech giant didn’t just download pirated books to train its AI models — it seeded them back out to other users on BitTorrent. The ruling, issued by U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria, strips away several of Meta’s defenses and sets the stage for what could become the most consequential copyright case…

Judge Allows BitTorrent Seeding Claims Against Meta, Despite Lawyers 'Lame Excuses'

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: In an effort to gather material for its LLM training, Meta used BitTorrent to download pirated books from Anna's Archive and other shadow libraries. According to several authors, Meta facilitated the infringement of others by "seeding" these tor...