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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.
A federal judge denied Meta’s bid to dismiss Strike 3 Holdings’ lawsuit, allowing claims that Meta coordinated torrenting of Strike 3’s adult videos to train its AI models to proceed. Evidence shows 47 Meta IP addresses torrented thousands of Strike 3 videos (about 81 terabytes) via Anna’s Archive from 2018–2025, with files having coordinated naming patterns. The court rejected Meta’s argument that only rogue employees were involved and held that the act of torrenting itself violated copyright, enabling direct, vicarious, and contributory infringement claims. The ruling signals potential liability for platforms that scrape copyrighted adult content for AI training.
Developer Ironmace has turned to torrents for playtesting of its upcoming RPG Dark and Darker after being delisted from Steam due to theft allegations from publisher Nexon. The team has posted instructions on the game's Discord and subreddit for interested players to download the client through torrents. Ironmace warns players of torrenting Dark and Darker through any other source, as it may contain files harmful to someone’s computer. The team also plans to release updates through this method, for the time being. The Dark and Darker alpha test will end on April 19.