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Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues (torrentfreak.com)
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To help train AI models, Meta and other tech companies have downloaded and shared pirated books via BitTorrent from Anna's Archive and other shadow libraries. In an ongoing lawsuit, Meta now argues that uploading pirated books to strangers via BitTorrent qualifies as fair use. The company also stresses that the data helped establish U.S. global leadership in AI.

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[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 0 points 1 week ago

Seeding is NOT needed for downloading.

[-] Grimy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

To be fair, I did say inherently part of. It would have been rude of them not to seed.

[-] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Those bastards stole all our data! But hey, at least they seeded it. Would have been pretty darn rude, otherwise.

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