Courts have also ruled that sharing in P2P network is enough to get hit with 150k in statutory damages per shared work.

AI companies did quite a bit of uploading while e.g. getting Anna's archive over BitTorrent.

It's transformative. Not aimed at exact reproduction, so not in the scope of copyright law.

	▲	tareqak an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		They participated in uploading the files as part of the downloading the torrent from other peers. Their use of the BitTorrent protocol to acquire these files would not have been transformative.
	▲	lobf an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I think you misread. There is nothing transformative about bittorrent automatically sharing parts of a file you're downloading with your peers.