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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

2026-05-08 · r/technology

Nvidia tried the classic 'we're just an ISP, bro' defense to dodge a lawsuit over 197,000 pirated books used for AI training — and the judge wasn't buying it. Turns out scripts in their NeMo Framework allegedly exist solely to turbocharge copyright infringement. When your own code is the smoking gun, maybe don't call yourself an innocent middleman.

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