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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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[-] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 14 points 2 days ago

It doesn't get us anything new. It does put a big, gaping hole in the FUD that has been spread about the supposed "illegality" of downloading.