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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    2 days ago

    Best I can tell, this lawsuit was filed in a US federal court in California. French law doesn’t seem to be applicable.

    French pirates should probably use a VPN endpoint in a more enlightened society.