Court documents show not only did Meta torrent terabytes of pirated books to train AI models, employees wouldn't stop emailing each other about it: 'Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn't feel rig

It wasn't even piracy. Schwartz had a legitimate right to access those materials via the university, they just trumped it up into an issue because he accessed them in a non-conventional manner and assumed he was up to something unscrupulous.

The entire case against him came down to "he seemed like he was concealing his bulk download that he was otherwise completely authorized to do, and therefore was consipring to do something"