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“Court documents released last night show that the senior manager felt it was ‘really important for [Meta] to get books ASAP,’ as ‘books are actually more important than web data.’ Meta employees turned their attention to Library Genesis, or LibGen, one of the largest of the pirated libraries that circulate online. It currently contains more than 7.5 million books and 81 million research papers. Eventually, the team at Meta got permission from ‘MZ’—an apparent reference to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg—to download and use the data set.” —SS
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