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A comment on Authors Seek Meta's Torrent Client Logs and Seeding Data in AI Piracy Probe. Parent comment

Re:Authors Seek Meta's Torrent Client Logs and Seeding Data ... by wongarsu on Monday January 20, 2025 @11:41PM (#42776702)
However since this is a civil case they don't have to prove beyond reasonable doubt that Meta seeded torrents. If they did use torrents the presumption would be that they used a regular bittorrent client with regular settings, and it would be on Meta to show they didn't do that.
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Re:Authors Seek Meta's Torrent Client Logs and Seeding Data ... by loeg on Monday January 20, 2025 @11:51PM (#42776749)
I am not commenting on any legal mechanics. Just technical details.
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Re:Authors Seek Meta's Torrent Client Logs and Seeding Data ... by anon373839 on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @01:56AM (#42777299)
Meta can show this with testimony. (Employee: “I opened the settings and disabled sharing.”)

This is a difficult theory for the plaintiffs to prevail on, since they would have no evidence of their own to contradict Meta’s testimony to keep the issue in play. Which is why they’re asking for client logs - and good luck with that.

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