Judge Suggests Pirate Libraries May Have Benefited from Meta Torrenting 80TB of Books
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Summary
Meta may defeat authors' torrenting claim due to lack of evidence. Judge suggests that Meta downloading copyrighted material from shadow libraries could be relevant to the case.
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Counting potential strikes against Meta, Chhabria pointed out that the "vast majority of cases" involving "this sort of peer
It could certainly look worse for Meta if authors manage to present evidence supporting the second way that torrenting could be relevant to the case, Chhabaria suggested.
Meta may defeat authors’ torrenting claim due to lack of evidence.
