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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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[-] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 43 points 3 days ago

ah so they only downloaded them illigally, and then used them illegally, but didn't share them illegally. got it

[-] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today -5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

There is no legal prohibition against asking someone for a copy of a work, nor is there a prohibition against receiving a copy, even if that copy was illegally produced and/or illegally distributed.

They didn't download them illegally, nor did they "use" them illegally. If you want to say they did something illegal, you have to argue that they were somehow in collusion with the uploader, which would make them uploaders themselves.

Edit: Downvotes? In a piracy community?