>acquiring the material illegally is the thrust of the issue 'Acquiring' is more difficult to pursue legally. It's easier to go after distribution. In this cas

>acquiring the material illegally is the thrust of the issue 'Acquiring' is more difficult to pursue legally. It's easier to go after distribution. In this case, Meta or OpenAI did not distribute anything because they are not chumps. They can go after whoever posted the dataset containing books. Not sure if that is eleuther or just some random person on the internet. In either case, the strategy of going after the rich companies won't work.