Meta invokes Supreme Court's Cox ruling to counter torrenting copyright claims in Entrepreneur Media suit

Meta filed a statement last week in Entrepreneur Media's copyright lawsuit (N.D. Cal. 3:25-cv-09579) arguing that the Supreme Court's recent Cox ruling helps it defeat the publisher's contributory-infringement claim. Entrepreneur Media alleges that Meta seeded roughly 80 terabytes of pirated works while torrenting books for AI training data, and that allowing uploads to speed up downloads made Meta a knowing facilitator of further infringement. The report notes this claim is easier to prove than the separate 'distribution' theory raised by book authors in Kadrey v. Meta, which required evidence that Meta torrented entire works. No court has ruled on Meta's statement; the Cox decision held that an ISP is liable only if its service was designed for illegal activity or it actively induced infringement.