Policy1 hOctober 23, 2026, 18:51

Judge orders Meta to name staff who approved torrenting pirated book libraries

US magistrate judge Thomas Hixson ruled that Meta must identify employees who approved acquiring shadow library datasets LibGen and Anna's Archive via BitTorrent. The discovery order covers five copyright suits, including the authors' class action naming Richard Kadrey and Sarah Silverman.

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Judge orders Meta to name staff who approved torrenting pirated book libraries

Court rejected Meta's claim of team consensus without formal sign-off
Meta must name FAIR staff who approved LibGen and Anna's Archive
Names required for those behind engineers Nikolay Bashlykov and Xiaolan Wang
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