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Re:Ask HN: Has anybody built search on top of Anna's Archive? by diggan on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @12:07PM (#44182272)
> the law is very much on the side of copyright holders in the US.

Remind me again what the status of the case is with Meta/Facebook using pirated material to train their proprietary LLMs, and even seeding the data back to the community while downloading it?

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Re:Ask HN: Has anybody built search on top of Anna's Archive? by SR2Z on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @05:38PM (#44185840)
In progress. Nobody is expecting the original protections afforded by copyright to apply here, but the fact that the material is pirated is less relevant than whether or not an LLM is a transformative use of the material.

We will almost certainly see copyright law weakened by the case, but I do not believe that FB will get off with no penalties.

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