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Court orderOctober 19, 2026Kadrey v. Meta Platforms; Entrepreneur Media v. Meta; Chicken Soup for the Soul, Cambronne and Cognella v. Meta · N.D. Cal. 3:23-cv-03417, 3:25-cv-09579, 3:26-cv-02333, 3:26-cv-03725, 3:26-cv-04053 (Magistrate Judge Hixson)

Magistrate judge orders Meta to name everyone who decided to download LibGen and Anna's Archive or to torrent them, and to explain how nine terabytes of deleted shadow-library data were acquired

Magistrate Judge Thomas Hixson's Oct. 19, 2026 discovery order covers Kadrey and four related Meta suits. On Entrepreneur Media's motion, he ordered Meta to identify every natural person who made, authorized or approved a decision to obtain or download a shadow-library dataset containing the plaintiff's works, including who approved the LibGen acquisition within FAIR and who approved resuming the Anna's Archive download. Meta must also name everyone involved in the discussion before an engineer's torrenting, who approved proceeding by torrent, and who decided whether or how to seed when it took LibGen Scimag and Anna's Archive content by BitTorrent; group decisions count. For Chicken Soup, Cognella and Cambronne, Meta must answer about removal of copyright management information, say what it did with downloaded works it never used for training, and explain how the nine terabytes of shadow-library data deleted on or about July 13, 2023 were acquired. The judge also sent redacted AI Data Catalog documents to in camera review, denied the Kadrey authors more deposition time, and ordered the plaintiffs to destroy unredacted copies of Fox Corp.'s licence with Meta produced by mistake.

Discovery Order, Kadrey v. Meta, Dkt. 874 (N.D. Cal. Oct. 19, 2026), PDF via RECAP ↗

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