Recently unsealed Meta emails contain “incriminating evidence” against the company in a copyright lawsuit filed submitted by book authors, and claim that Meta illegally trained its AI models with pirated books.
Last month, Meta admitted to seeding a torrent containing a large dataset known as LibGen, which includes tens of millions of pirated books.
However, the details surrounding torrenting were unclear until yesterday, when the Meta emails were first made public.
The new evidence showed that Meta torrented “at least 81,7 terabytes of data from multiple illegal libraries through the site.” Anna's Archive, including at least 35,7 terabytes of data from Z-Library and its LibGen“, the authors’ lawsuit stated. “Meta had also previously downloaded a torrent containing 80,6 terabytes of data from LibGen.”
“The scale of Meta’s illegal torrenting is staggering,” the authors’ lawsuit claims, insisting that “much smaller acts of data hacking lead to convictions.
The authors' works are protected by copyright, which led authorities to refer the lawsuit to the US attorney's office.
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The article has been translated by the vice president of Edessaikos.