Emails discussing torrenting prove that Meta knew it was "illegal," authors alleged. And Bashlykov's warnings seemingly landed on deaf ears, with authors alleging that evidence showed Meta chose to instead hide its torrenting as best it could while downloading and seeding terabytes of data from multiple shadow libraries as recently as April 2024. Meta allegedly concealed seeding Supposedly, Meta tried to conceal the seeding by not using Facebook servers while downloading the dataset to "avoid" t...