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Authors say Meta has produced no server command logs from its torrenting and ask the court to make it say whether any were deleted; Meta says it is still searching

In a joint discovery status report (Dkt. 854), the authors say the court has twice ordered Meta to produce command history files, the records of commands typed on a computer, for its torrent downloads, and that Meta has produced none from servers. They say a Sept. 30 production held Amazon cloud server logs for two employees rather than the files ordered, and that Meta now limits its server search to systems that are "reasonably accessible," a limit they say the orders do not contain. Saying Meta's largest torrenting took place in spring 2024, a year after the suit began, they ask the court to order Meta to search all computers and backups for six named employees and to state in writing by Oct. 16 whether and when any such files were deleted. Meta answers that it searched the available devices and backups of four of the employees and produced what it found, is finishing a fifth and will search for the sixth, has not located command history files for the cloud downloads but produced logs showing the commands used, and is still searching servers. It says the orders do not require a written explanation. These are the parties' statements; the court has not ruled.