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
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    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