Every time I read an article about Facebook, I hate them a little more.

Meta argued that Strike 3 Holdings failed to show that Meta actually intended to use Strike 3 Holdings’ videos to train its AI models and that Meta, the company, was actually responsible for downloading the videos, as opposed to rogue employees downloading porn on company time from company IP addresses.

I think they protest too much.

And it's extra scummy to blame corporate behavior on scapegoat employees.

Love watching big porn fight big tech

Never thought we'd be rooting on Big Porn to help save integrity of the internet, but I'm all for it. They brought us HD, 4K, VR, now let's go save the rest.

I think the best part of the article (besides the decision of course) is the following:

“A Strike 3 Holding investigation found that 47 IP addresses belonging to Meta were used to torrent 2,396 of its videos a total of 6,008 times between 2018 and 2025.”

If videos are being downloaded more than once, it’s hard to argue it’s just for model training. lol.

Their LLMs might get a little confused now when people ask about British shows on BBC.

I hope Meta gets the shaft

I bet the jury had to thoroughly inspect the video evidence.

Hopefully this is just the beginning. Go after all of the AIs!

Does this pave the way forward for all published content, then? Especially if they win their case against meta (or more likely just receive a fat settlement out of court)

They are mostly getting hit because they seeded, which is hilarious that even Meta couldn't risk get banned for hit and run on a tracker.

Everyone needs to sue Meta

Cue settlement because Meta cannot stomach discovery on this one. As the article shows, this lawsuit comes from discovery in a different lawsuit. These are the sorts of dominos that trigger settlements.

Ok, so this is happening in the northern California district, so once it gets before an appellate don't hold y'all's breathe. And you can better make damn sure you don't bet against meta bribing someone to make sure it happens in Texas, on polymarket!

But also 47 addresses streamed 2,800 some odd videos 6,000 times! Of which it seems there was a mention of ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987-1996),’, so does that mean they watched all the cartoons and movies back to back?

Wa-howww! That is not a headline I had on my bingo card for today.

Meta needs to get fucked with one of those BBDs.

This is the weirdest fucking timeline I swear to Cthulhu

Discovery is going to be wlid

I hope Meta get it like one of those tiny blonde girls I've heard feature in Blached videos tehehehehe

The enemy of my enemy is not always my friend

Meta about to get fucked like never before.