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TorrentFreak: Meta’s BitTorrent Uploads of ‘Pirate Library’ Data Equaled 30% of Downloads, Expert Says. “A lawsuit filed by several authors against Meta centers on Meta’s alleged use of pirated books for AI training data and the technical details of BitTorrent which was used to obtain them. Yesterday, Meta filed a motion for summary judgment, while countering the authors’ request to […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/26/torrentfreak-metas-bittorrent-uploads-of-pirate-library-data-equaled-30-of-downloads-expert-says/

UK Publishers and Cambridge, Call out Meta and Piracy in Generative AI Training

As Bologna Book Plus prepares its full-morning "AI Summit for April 1, new condemnation of Meta and pirated copyrighted content.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2025/03/uk-publishers-and-cambridge-call-out-meta-and-piracy-in-generative-ai-training/

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Tom’s Hardware: Meta defends using pirated material, claims it’s legal if you don’t seed content. “Meta claimed in a court filing this week that despite torrenting an 82 TB dataset of pirated, copyrighted material from shadow libraries to train its LLaMA AI models, that employees ‘took precautions not to “seed” any downloaded files’. The act of Seeding in torrenting terminology refers to […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/23/toms-hardware-meta-defends-using-pirated-material-claims-its-legal-if-you-dont-seed-content/

TorrentFreak: ‘Meta Torrented over 81 TB of Data Through Anna’s Archive, Despite Few Seeders’. “Freshly unsealed court documents reveal that Meta downloaded significant amounts of data from shadow libraries through Anna’s Archive. The company’s use of BitTorrent was already known, but internal email communication reveals sources and terabytes of downloaded data, as well as a struggle […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/07/torrentfreak-meta-torrented-over-81-tb-of-data-through-annas-archive-despite-few-seeders/

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