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1. Oct 20
   Judge orders Meta to name staff and executives who approved shadow-library torrenting

   A US magistrate judge, Thomas Hixon, ordered Meta to identify the employees and executives who made, authorized or approved decisions to obtain or download shadow-library datasets such as LibGen and Anna's Archive via BitTorrent, according to Ars Technica and cnBeta. The order stems from a lawsuit by publisher Entrepreneur Media and also touches a class action by authors including Richard Kadrey and Sarah Silverman; it covers people who discussed the downloads, approved BitTorrent use, and decided whether or how to upload files. Hixon rejected Meta's argument that no single decision-maker existed, and Meta must also produce command-history files for the servers it used to torrent, including virtual machines and AWS instances. The ruling is a discovery step only and does not decide whether Meta infringed copyright.

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