A lawsuit filed by several authors against Meta centers on Meta’s alleged use of pirated books for AI training data and the technical details of BitTorrent which was used to obtain them. Yesterday, Meta filed a motion for summary judgment, while countering the authors’ request to resolve the copyright claims in their favor. Meta’s request includes new information, including the revelation that its uploads of ‘pirate’ library data were roughly 30% of the data it downloaded.
30% of - what was it - 80TB? Not bad considering they claimed to have changed their configuration settings and even just leeched the lot. I hope that 24TB leak costs them very, very dearly.
The case law that results from this case may cost everyone very dearly
True but it’d be its own victory to see even the billion-dollar companies are as susceptible to the law as the rest of us are.
This is part of why penalties have maximums.
They could easily charge $200/file with a cap of $5M. Slap in the wrist for Facebook, ruinous for almost everyone else.