Judge Allows BitTorrent Seeding Claims Against Meta, Despite Lawyers 'Lame Excuses'

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By BeauHDMar 30, 2026, 2:18 pm151 ptsTrending
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: In an effort to gather material for its LLM training, Meta used BitTorrent to download pirated books from Anna's Archive and other shadow libraries. According to several authors, Meta facilitated the infringement of others by "seeding" these torrents. This…

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