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