United StatesA magistrate judge ordered Meta to name who approved torrenting books.
Meta blamed staff for weeks, while authors argue leaders made a willful choice to infringe.
Meta says early datasets involved no formal decisions, but a staffer testified downloads needed director or vice president approval.
Meta says it used mitigations to prevent seeding and knows of no one who approved uploading.
Server command logs, also ordered produced, could show whether Meta seeded the books to other users.
How each outlet framed it
- Ars Technica leans critical
- traces Meta's 'informal approach' defence and asks whether Zuckerberg could be drawn into the discovery order
Sources: Ars Technica