Publishers suing Meta over alleged pirated book use in AI training sought subpoenas of OpenAI and Anthropic's torrent client records to challenge Meta's defense that uploading was an unavoidable BitTorrent protocol feature. A federal magistrate judge sided with OpenAI and Anthropic, ruling their torrent logs irrelevant and that Meta's fair use defense should be tested by examining BitTorrent client technology itself.
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