- Strike 3 Holdings, the producer of adult movies, aka pornography, sued Meta earlier this week for copyright infringement. Wow!
- The allegations include: “56. Upon learning of Meta’s use, Plaintiffs researched its archive of recorded infringement captured by its VXN Scan and Cross Reference tools, discussed infra, and found forty-seven IP addresses identified as owned by Facebook infringing its copyright protected Works. See Exhibit A.”
- “57. Many of the IP addresses listed on Exhibit A continued unauthorized distribution of multiple other Works owned by Plaintiffs over several years.”
- “90. The Kadrey lawsuit also revealed that Meta used what it described as ‘off-infra’ IP addresses to conduct its infringement so that it could conceal its BitTorrent activities. See, e.g., Kadrey, D.E. 562-13, at p3 (“Meta employees indicated they wanted to keep torrenting activity off of Meta infrastructure so that seeders could not be traced back to Meta IP addresses.”); D.E. 568-3, D.E. 479-1, D.E. 417-1, D.E. 408-1.”
- “Meta infringed 2,396 of Plaintiffs’ Works. All of these Works have been registered with the United States Copyright Office. These Works, including the website of publication, date of publication, registration date and Registration Number with the United States Copyright Office are outlined on Exhibit D.”
- “118. Although Meta may have intentionally limited seeding of large amounts of content it sourced from BitTorrent, Meta hand-picked Plaintiffs’ Works for intense periods of distribution.”
- “132. On information and belief, Meta is also using Plaintiffs’ content to train its AI Models, knowing that such models will eventually create identical content for little to no cost. This will effectively eliminate Plaintiffs’ future ability to compete in the marketplace.
- “133. Based on the scale of infringement recorded by VXN Scan and the Cross Reference Tool, no human being has the capacity to download and consume as much content as Meta infringed.
- “134. That being said, Meta’s infringement has also specifically targeted Plaintiffs’ Works, often infringing the very same day Plaintiffs’ release their motion pictures.”
Wild.
This lawsuit raises the total number of U.S. copyright lawsuits against AI companies to 48!
