{
  "id": 15840870,
  "title": "Judge Orders Meta To Name Employees Who Approved Torrenting Anna's Archive, Libgen",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/21/judge-orders-meta-to-name-employees-who-approved-torrenting-annas",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-21T03:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Slashdot",
    "slug": "slashdot",
    "url": "https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/10/20/2055251/judge-orders-meta-to-name-employees-who-approved-torrenting-annas-archive-libgen"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Last month, Magistrate Judge Thomas Hixson ordered Meta to hand over the command histories of the servers it used to torrent pirated books. These logs would presumably reveal how Meta's torrent clients were set up, including any changes to their upload settings. [...] The server logs could reveal what happened on Meta's machines. However,…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}