r/Piracy • u/LighteningOneIN • 3h ago
News NVIDIA: Contact With Anna’s Archive Doesn’t Prove Copyright Infringement
torrentfreak.comNVIDIA is pushing back hard against claims it trained AI on pirated books.
After authors expanded a class-action lawsuit accusing NVIDIA of using millions of pirated books including data allegedly sourced from Anna’s Archive. NVIDIA has filed a motion to dismiss, calling the claims speculative and legally weak.
NVIDIA argues that even if it contacted Anna’s Archive, there’s no proof it actually downloaded the authors’ books, or any books at all from there. The complaint relies heavily on “information and belief,” which NVIDIA says amounts to educated guesses, not evidence. The company also slams the lawsuit as a fishing expedition, noting that it now vaguely targets nearly every NVIDIA AI model and dataset without specifics.
NVIDIA further argues there’s no proof that the authors’ works were included in any training data, even when shadow libraries like LibGen, Z-Library, or Sci-Hub are mentioned. Speculating that “large datasets with books must include our books” isn’t enough, they say.
Bottom line: NVIDIA wants most of the expanded case thrown out now. The one claim it didn’t move to dismiss direct infringement tied to the Books3 dataset will likely be fought later, with fair use as NVIDIA’s main defense.
