Meta copyright case turns on pirated-book downloads and disputed testimony
What happened
A court already ruled last year that training Llama on books was fair use, but the authors' case still disputes BitTorrent downloads. An October 31 report says plaintiffs cite former researcher Stephen Roller, who admitted downloading and distributing Books3 via BitTorrent and later deleted his copies because of the lawsuit. Meta says Roller cannot pin down when he downloaded, did not confirm it was for Meta, and that the deleted copies were on a personal computer. The two sides still read the testimony differently, and plaintiffs want dataset copies and server command-history files.
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- Hacker News front pageEx-Meta Researcher Torrented Pirated Books, Deleted It 'Due to Litigation'
Meta 版权诉讼中的原告称，前研究员 Stephen Roller 承认通过 BitTorrent 下载并分发 Books3，随后因诉讼删除副本。Meta 反驳称，他无法确定下载时间，也未确认下载是为 Meta 进行，删除的副本存于个人电脑。法院去年已裁定使用书籍训练 Llama 属于合理使用，作者案件仍争议 BitTorrent 下载行为；原告还要求追查数据集副本及服务器命令历史文件。
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