Nvidia’s ISP piracy defense backfires as judge refuses to dismiss copyright lawsuit over more than 197,000 pirated books — scripts in NeMo Framework allegedly ‘have no other purpose’ than to speed up infringement

Nvidia's attempt to dismiss a copyright infringement lawsuit over 197,000 pirated books using its NeMo Megatron Framework was denied by U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar. The judge ruled that specific scripts within the framework were designed solely for speeding up the infringement process, leading to a violation of copyright rules. The lawsuit alleges that Nvidia used the Bibliotik eBook torrent tracker, the Books3 dataset, and 'The Pile' dataset for training its AI models, resulting in a class action lawsuit by authors for copyright infringement. This decision allows the authors' case against Nvidia to proceed, indicating a potential lengthy legal battle ahead.