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Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John Doe' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive (torrentfreak.com)
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A routine John Doe lawsuit could become part of Strike 3 Holdings' $446 million AI training case against Meta. The adult film producer wants to link the two lawsuits, arguing that a Reality Labs executive downloaded nearly 20,000 files at his home for work purposes, not for personal use. Meta counters that the alleged home downloads are not linked to the company.

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Meta executive faces lawsuit for torrenting 20k porn videos from his home (torrentfreak.com)
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Allegedly as part of a scheme to get data for the company to train AI and develop adult VR tech while shielding it from legal liability

“In short, this is a lot for one person to torrent on an average day, particularly one who has a demanding job,” Strike 3 writes. The company believes the pattern makes more sense as AI training data or research.

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Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John Doe' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive (torrentfreak.com)
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A routine John Doe lawsuit could become part of Strike 3 Holdings' $446 million AI training case against Meta.

Case file: https://torrentfreak.com/images/78.pdf
Case file: https://torrentfreak.com/images/80.0.pdf

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Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific ‘John Doe’ Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive AI Law (torrentfreak.com)
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