Court Allows Strike 3’s Meta copyright suit over AI training downloads to proceed

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A federal judge denied Meta’s bid to dismiss a Strike 3 Holdings/Counterlife Media lawsuit alleging Meta pirated over 2,300 pornographic films via BitTorrent to train its AI, finding plausible direct, vicarious, and contributory copyright infringement and allowing the case to proceed with potential damages up to $359 million.
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