digital piracy

March 27, 2011 - Tech media outlet WinBuzzer published a blog post yesterday (March 26) reporting that new research shows Meta's involvement in the digital book piracy chain is far greater than expected. According to the report, Meta uses pirated books from LibGen, Z-Library and other "shadow libraries" to train AI models, and also re-uploads about 30% of downloaded books via BitTorrent, objectively prolonging the distribution cycle of pirated works. Experts point out that although BitTorrent is silent...