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Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues (torrentfreak.com)
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To help train AI models, Meta and other tech companies have downloaded and shared pirated books via BitTorrent from Anna's Archive and other shadow libraries. In an ongoing lawsuit, Meta now argues that uploading pirated books to strangers via BitTorrent qualifies as fair use. The company also stresses that the data helped establish U.S. global leadership in AI.

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[-] Grimy@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I'm not pro-copyright. I actually steal content, as in pirate it and then watch it. I don't consider it stealing to do it to train AI on it tbh.

"Our" data implies we collectively own it, yet we don't, copyright companies for the most part do.

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