<ul><li>Newly unsealed emails allegedly provide the "most damning evidence" yet against Meta in a copyright case raised by book authors alleging that Meta illegally trained its AI models on pirated books.</li><li>Meta admitted to torrenting a controversial large dataset known as LibGen, which includes tens of millions of pirated books.</li><li>The new evidence showed that Meta torrented "at least 81.7 terabytes of data across multiple shadow libraries through the site Anna’s Archive, including at least 35.7 terabytes of data from Z-Library and LibGen," the authors' court filing said. And "Meta also previously torrented 80.6 terabytes of data from LibGen."</li><li>The authors' filing alleged that the magnitude of Meta's unlawful torrenting scheme is astonishing and insists that smaller acts of data piracy have resulted in criminal investigations in the past.</li></ul>

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