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Company filingFebruary 14, 2025Kadrey v. Meta Platforms, Inc. · N.D. Cal. 3:23-cv-03417

Meta's corporate witness testified it used BitTorrent for LibGen; its written answers the next month named the sites but not the method

Discovery material filed publicly in February 2025 includes testimony from Meta's corporate designee, taken November 20, 2024, that after direct downloads ran into problems, "We used libtorrent and the torrent protocol for downloading" LibGen. A second designee testified in December 2024 that he used torrenting for LibGen's journal-article collection. Meta's written interrogatory answers of December 13, 2024, signed by its lawyers, say Books3 and The Pile came from the-eye.eu and that for LibGen and Anna's Archive it obtained links from those sites which were used to download files; those answers do not mention BitTorrent. The same answers say Meta did not seek licenses for the datasets because it considered the use fair, and list employees with a direct role in approving their use. Mark Zuckerberg is not on that list. Dataset names in much of the public copy are redacted. These are Meta's own statements; no verification page appears in the public exhibit.

Excerpts of Meta's Rule 30(b)(6) deposition, Nov. 20, 2024 (Dkt. 443-3) ↗Meta's responses to interrogatories, Dec. 13, 2024 (Dkt. 445-1) ↗

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