much less that Plaintiffs’ books were somehow distributed by Meta.
While I guess that Meta may have used settings to be leech only. Unless they show that they did that (which is of course poor practice if torrenting), the nature of torrenting by default means that even one piece of a file was seeded to another user is "distribution."
I am not looking forward to the spin from the WH and right-wing media afterwards. Will be hyper all about claims of it being a "massive success" and something about it actually being about "showing China what can happen at the drop of a hat." Hopefully China will be able to keep making it harder and harder to make such claims.