{"id":129189,"date":"2025-11-08T18:51:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T18:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/129189\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T18:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T18:51:12","slug":"meta-accuses-employees-dad-of-downloading-gigantic-illegal-goon-stash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/129189\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta Accuses Employee’s Dad of Downloading Gigantic Illegal Goon Stash"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\t\t\tIllustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins \/ Futurism. Source: Getty Imags<\/p>\n

Just when you thought you\u2019ve seen it all, Meta comes out and accuses a random man of hosting a trove of illegally torrented smut.<\/p>\n

The whole thing started with a July lawsuit<\/a> by an adult film companies Strike 3 \u2014 which has been called<\/a> the \u201cmost active copyright litigant in the United States\u201d \u2014 and Counterlife Media.<\/p>\n

To make a long story short, the two rightsholders essentially accused Meta of illegally torrenting<\/a> some 2,400 skin flicks to train its AI systems. Their civil suit seeks a combined $359 million in damages, and alleges Meta could be developing a secret \u201cadult version\u201d of its generative AI software, Movie Gen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It wouldn\u2019t exactly be uncharacteristic of Meta, which was found to have fed over seven million<\/a> illegally-pirated books, articles, and magazines into its AI earlier this year. There\u2019s also the smoking gun to consider \u2014 as the copyright industry publication TorrentFreak reported<\/a>, Meta was caught with their pants down hosting 47 IP addresses linked to the illegal distribution of all those dirty movies.<\/p>\n

Yet to hear the tech giant tells it, the videos were actually downloaded \u201cfor private personal use,\u201d as flagged by Gizmodo<\/a>. The counter-argument came via Meta\u2019s motion to dismiss the case, as part of a claim that the 2,400 video files in question aren\u2019t enough to develop a workable AI model.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe small number of downloads \u2014 roughly 22 per year on average across dozens of Meta IP addresses \u2014 is plainly indicative of private personal use, not a concerted effort to collect the massive datasets Plaintiffs allege are necessary for effective AI training,\u201d Meta quarreled.<\/p>\n

A Meta spokesperson told Giz that the company doesn\u2019t \u201cwant this type of content,\u201d adding that it takes \u201cdeliberate steps to avoid training on this kind of material.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet its motion to dismiss goes even farther.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Strike 3] points to 97 additional downloads made using the home IP address of a Meta contractor\u2019s father, but plead no facts plausibly tying Meta to those downloads, which are plainly indicative of personal consumption,\u201d the filing alleged.<\/p>\n

In other words, Meta\u2019s arguing that it isn\u2019t their professional goon stash \u2014 but instead some worker\u2019s dad whose torrenting habit happened to be detected in a sweep of illegal activity on IP addresses related to its corporate activities. Whether that excuse adds up will be a matter for the court, but in the meantime, it\u2019s a pretty humiliating reminder to use a VPN.<\/p>\n

More on Gooning: Scientists Scanned the Brains of Hardcore Gooners and Found Something Ominous<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins \/ Futurism. Source: Getty Imags Just when you thought you\u2019ve seen it all, Meta…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-129189","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}