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Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues

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Hacker News | Mar 7, 2026 | askl

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By downloading books from shadow libraries such as Anna’s Archive, Meta relied on BitTorrent transfers. While both parties collected additional evidence through the discovery process, it remained unclear what defense Meta would use. These admissions were central to Meta’s fair use defense on the training claims, which Meta won last summer.

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