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AllegationOctober 6, 2026Kadrey v. Meta Platforms, Inc. · N.D. Cal. 3:23-cv-03417

Authors ask for more time to question Meta's corporate witness on torrenting, saying he could not answer basic questions

In a joint discovery letter to Magistrate Judge Hixson (Dkt. 852), the authors seek three more hours of deposition of a Meta corporate designee on its uploading while torrenting and on its internal AI Data Catalog. They say Meta's lawyers made 27 improper scope objections at the Aug. 28 deposition of James Beldock, and that he could not say whether Meta was concerned about the risk of distribution when an employee torrented from LibGen, or list the approved uses of datasets in the catalog. They ask the court to strike the objections and treat his answers as Meta's, or order a prepared witness. They also assert that Meta's legal concerns about torrenting led at least one engineer to download millions of books from LibGen directly. Meta responds that the questions went beyond the noticed topics, that many were "invitations to moralize," that the witness was adequately prepared, and that any gaps could be covered by written questions. These are the parties' positions in a discovery dispute; the transcript is under seal and the court has not ruled.

Joint Discovery Letter Brief re: Rule 30(b)(6) Deposition, Dkt. 852 (Oct. 6, 2026) ↗

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