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Meta Says it Made Sure Not to Seed Any Pirated Books. (torrentfreak.com)

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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.

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[-] heavydust@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago

It’s very illegal in Fance to download without paying, and I guess it’s the same in a lot of other countries.

[-] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Best I can tell, this lawsuit was filed in a US federal court in California. French law doesn't seem to be applicable.

French pirates should probably use a VPN endpoint in a more enlightened society.

[-] illi@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago

There are also countries where it is not - for example where I live last I checked downloading is legally ok, though some would say it is a grey zone moraly. It's the distributing of a copy without proper licensing deals and stuff that's illegal.

So downloading of illegal copies using torrents would be illegal in most cases as you would be seeding and thus providing the illegal copy to others.

Direct download is a-okay in the eye of law as long as it is only for your personal use