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Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn’t illegal without proof of seeding

Skip to content Meta’s copyright defense may hinge on court ignorance of torrenting terminology. A peer who downloads more data than they upload on torrenting networks is known as a "leech" sucking up data without contributing to the swarm. Credit: phototrip | iStock / Getty Images Plus Just because Meta admitted to torrenting a dataset of pirated books for AI training purposes, that doesn't necessarily mean that Meta seeded the file after downloading it, the social media company claimed in a c...

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