Meta can't shield AI training piracy from lawsuits
a judge rejected meta's attempt to dismiss a copyright lawsuit regarding 81tb of scraped data, allowing strike 3 holdings to proceed with claims that meta pirated its content for ai training.
a federal judge denied meta's motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by strike 3 holdings, finding that the company likely engaged in direct copyright infringement by torrenting 81 terabytes of data, including adult content, from anna's archive. internal investigation revealed that 47 meta ip addresses coordinated to download files based on specific search terms like 'teen', disproving meta's defense that individual employees acted independently. the judge ruled that meta violated copyright simply by downloading and seeding the files, regardless of whether the specific videos were fed into its ai models. this ruling allows the case to proceed and sets a precedent for content creators challenging ai companies' data acquisition practices.