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drewg123 3 hours ago [-]
However, Strike 3 argues that this is no ordinary home pirate, using the timing of the downloads as evidence. On March 20, 2025, the porn producer’s general counsel first emailed Meta’s lawyers with forensic evidence of BitTorrent activity on the tech giant’s corporate IP addresses.
“Just hours later, Strike 3 first recorded BitTorrent infringement on John Doe’s residential IP Address,” the motion reads.
“This may suggest that Meta desired to shift infringing activity to this hidden residential IP Address in order to prevent further detection,”
Seems like there are 2 different reads to that. (a) is like they say, and Meta was using porn for AI training or something else official. Or (b) that he was personally downloading porn either at the office or a corp VPN and was told to stop by their corp It folks..
ryandvm 2 hours ago [-]
> Or (b) that he was personally downloading porn either at the office or a corp VPN
Man, if Facebook is hiring people this dumb, it's going to make me feel a lot worse about getting rejected after interviewing there.
bartread 1 hours ago [-]
Mate, I got rejected by Cambridge University.
I've lived in and around Cambridge for a very long time now. I've met a lot of Cambridge undergrads and graduates. Let me tell you: they are a mixed bag.
Don't misunderstand me: there are some very smart people at Cambridge University. Very smart indeed. And I think if you took any cohort from Cambridge Uni versus a similar cohort from another university you'd certainly find that, against most universities, the Cambridge cohort would be smarter on average. In fact the place is genuinely awash with very smart people literally everywhere.
But that doesn't mean there aren't plenty of people that went to Cambridge who clearly found a way to blag their way through the interview process that may not have been particularly closely correlated with their intellect. The same will be true of Meta, Google, etc. I swear, the interview processes at these companies are probably more of a sop to the egos of company leadership and people who already work there than they are any more effective at filtering down to good talent than less byzantine and overwrought hiring processes.
You just have to make your peace with it.
foobarbecue 1 hours ago [-]
Cambridge alum here. Agree; admissions is a crapshoot. Job interviews are a crapshoot. C'est la vie.
drewg123 2 hours ago [-]
This person is supposedly an executive. I doubt most executive could pass an FAANG technical interview.
eyepea2007 13 minutes ago [-]
In a related article linked at the bottom of the article's page, it says Meta confirmed it was a former data engineer:
is "executive" a well defined term for american corporate law? like "a person who can allocate funds from the master bank account without approval" or something like that?
phonon 31 minutes ago [-]
"Officer" is typically anyone who can bind the company contractually.
SmasherEpilepti 37 minutes ago [-]
Not really, It's just another term for upper management. It's just shorthand for any employee whose title begins with "Chief" or has "Executive" in it (among others like Chairman, President, etc).
Usually, people who can make large decisions for the business without approval from higher-level employees.
ryandrake 2 hours ago [-]
I doubt executives even go through the typical employee interview hazing. It's more vibes and "do you know the right people or go to the right prestigious school?"
Executive (and upper management) hiring is much more about owning and using risk, getting the management unit (your part of the org) all aligned and singing the same tune, and for executives showing that you've done this successfully across distinct business units (eg sales and engineering).
There's then a much more serious alignment pass.
Relationships can and do pre-vouch for big pieces of this such as alignment - if you've worked with someone for a decade, you are probably mission aligned.
anonym00se1 22 minutes ago [-]
I worked there for years. I assure you, based on my experience, that there are a lot of dumb people there making > $500k/year.
echelon 19 minutes ago [-]
There's a strong luck component to interviewing.
Which interviewers you get, vibes, which team is hiring, whether the folks in your hiring bar are grumpy, ...
Best thing you can do is know several people who can act as direct hiring manager.
giancarlostoro 11 minutes ago [-]
It's even worse that they overpay people who do this type of thing while at work.
dozerly 2 hours ago [-]
They are, they probably just did slightly better at regurgitating leetcode problems than you
ElProlactin 2 hours ago [-]
Did you apply for the VR porn training team?
dgellow 39 minutes ago [-]
It’s a massive company, with more than 75k employees. At that scale you have to have a lot of dumb people
doublerabbit 32 minutes ago [-]
To be fair, you'd have to be pretty dumb to apply to work at Meta anyway.
dgellow 11 minutes ago [-]
Or ideologically aligned
itronitron 30 minutes ago [-]
The employees at any particular company are a random sample of the population, and will therefore have traits that occur in the larger population.
dgellow 21 minutes ago [-]
No? It’s not a random selection. The interview process doesn’t just randomly pick people
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mcmcmc 2 hours ago [-]
I wouldn’t, lack of moral fiber is a key factor they look for
morkalork 1 hours ago [-]
How is their network security that lax? I feel like if I tried run a torrent at work, netops would be hunting my ass down immediately.
dfxm12 11 minutes ago [-]
In my experience, executives get special treatment.
sandworm101 2 hours ago [-]
Does anyone honestly believe that Zuck doesn't have his own history with filesharing? Any computer nerd from that time would have deep knowledge of filesharing.
throwyawayyyy 1 hours ago [-]
Who'd have thought a Meta exec would be arrogant enough to assume they can get away with this (!!). /s
stevenwoo 2 hours ago [-]
When I worked for office with about 40 employees in 2001 or so, the FBI came to our office to arrest a guy using I think Limewire over our high speed internet access to share music and videos. It may be so common these days they only crack down like that on really egregious abuse.
busterarm 2 hours ago [-]
Around that same time my own brother was working at the second largest record label in the world and their own servers were hacked and serving about 1/3 of global warez downloads.
Law enforcement didn’t get involved and nobody did shit about it.
Not even the last time that company was massively hacked. ;)
abofh 57 minutes ago [-]
I mean basically that. If you hit a corporate IP, unless they have flow level logging or you have very extensive timestamps, then the game ends, company says they've enacted new training or controls, but they can't identify a specific person and it's not their fault.
Essentially - this is not a suggestion.
Residential ip's map to a specific person, and it's a lot harder for them to deflect and say I'm not responsible for my own Internet connection
sandworm101 2 hours ago [-]
It had to be more complicated than simple copyright infringement for the cops to get involved.
axus 2 hours ago [-]
The music industry had more political power in 2001 than it does now.
sandworm101 2 hours ago [-]
Or he was sharing other material that was kept quiet.
joemi 1 hours ago [-]
The raid being due solely to music copyright infringement is really the most likely situation. There's no need to imply it was anything else.
For example, in 2009 I worked at a record store that got raided due to such claims. The RIAA's informant claimed he had seen people selling hidden bootlegs, which absolutely wasn't happening, and that was all they needed to have cops raid the store, arrest several people and cart off boxes of not-bootlegged, sold-by-major-CD-distributors CDs. Court dates followed and the case was eventually dismissed (or settled due to being more convenient than continuing the case? I can't remember), but it still took time, money, and lawyers. And this was in 2009, when the recording industry wield less power than in 2001.
(I was running late for work that day or else I would have ended up arrested too, since I was one of the managers scheduled then. Thank god I was running late!)
shimman 1 hours ago [-]
This is crazy. Worked at a national ISP/telecom and one of the directors openly had a seedbox and was torrenting massive amount of things. Chalked it up as the poors being held to different standards as this person had a close relationship with one of the executives.
read_the_articl 1 hours ago [-]
From TFA: "Strike 3 suggests the downloads are consistent with work to make the headset compatible with adult films"
> The company logged all BitTorrent activity detected from the executive’s connection, which was nearly 20,000 files.
> This includes VR adult titles made for Meta’s Quest headset. Strike 3 suggests the downloads are consistent with work to make the headset compatible with adult films.
> As recently as August 25, Strike 3 says it recorded more than 150 daily downloads, from multi-language “Mega Packs” of TV shows, movies, software and books to what it describes as AI-generated pornography and VR adult films. That included nearly a dozen of its own titles.
huijzer 56 minutes ago [-]
> Meta was using porn for AI training or …
Seems plausible. The material contains many hours of highly detailed human interaction plus I don’t expect Meta would have moral objections given their track record.
infinite_spin 51 minutes ago [-]
I suspect their goal is to train a model for detecting adult material, so that they can block it, which isn't necessarily an amoral goal
overtone1000 45 minutes ago [-]
But would still be a copyright violation
infinite_spin 30 minutes ago [-]
I'm not a lawyer, but in my view copyright violations center around distribution, not necessarily the method by which a work is obtained
e.g. if someone is reciting a poem they wrote in a public park, and I make a recording of that recitation, I have not violated their copyright in doing so, however I might violate their copyright by reconstructing that poem and then distributing it
mmsc 45 minutes ago [-]
What is the moral difference between training on porn vs other genres of media?
jasonlotito 50 minutes ago [-]
> "In short, this is a lot for one person to torrent on an average day, particularly one who has a demanding job," Strike 3 writes. The company believes the pattern makes more sense as AI training data or research.
I hope they drag Meta hard and get every penny for this.
mc32 3 hours ago [-]
IT is usually not the one doing the enforcement. They typically only do the monitoring and may report some activity above thresholds.
Legal is usually the one initiating then engaging with HR to do enforcement.
fckgw 55 minutes ago [-]
> As recently as August 25, Strike 3 says it recorded more than 150 daily downloads, from multi-language “Mega Packs” of TV shows, movies, software and books to what it describes as AI-generated pornography and VR adult films. That included nearly a dozen of its own titles.
It sounds like this person/IP was just downloading a ton of different content, of which these VR videos were are part of.
Doesn't that water down their complaint a bit? If they are trying to say they moved to a residential IP to specifically download VR content for training data, why are they also downloading unrelated eBook and other media? Seems like VR content made up a pretty small percentage of overall downloaded content.
hackingonempty 2 hours ago [-]
Strike 3, the studio involved, files more lawsuits in the USA than anyone else. I think that makes them the biggest Copyright Trolls of all time. They run their own BitTorrent monitoring operation.
mullingitover 2 hours ago [-]
Meta, the other company involved, engaged in industrial scale piracy in pursuit of training data[1].
Let me break out the world's tiniest violin for them.
Are you saying laws shouldn’t restrict any company that give out an open source next-token iterator?
I think that’s more hopium ethics.
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fn-mote 2 hours ago [-]
The company that owns the copyright should be allowed to enforce it. I don't see how that can be called trolling.
1 hours ago [-]
WaitWaitWha 2 hours ago [-]
how long are these videos? 2,973 of them (and not even the 20,000 count)? even at 15 minute clips that is like... five years?! watching non-stop.
I am hard pressed to believe that this was for the exec.
what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander
I just wnat to know what bandwidth this exec has at his house. I want it.
hackingonempty 2 hours ago [-]
I doubt many consumers of these videos are watching them straight through like a normal movie.
Hamuko 2 hours ago [-]
Don't know how they're keeping up with the plot like that.
boomboomsubban 6 minutes ago [-]
3000 fifteen minute clips is 750 hours, or 31 days. A lot, but not five years.
brnt 5 minutes ago [-]
Checkout r/DataHoarder for what kind of person does this.
It's about having the library, not about reading the books.
hiccuphippo 2 hours ago [-]
Hoarders gonna hoard
tonyedgecombe 1 hours ago [-]
I've heard the same about pirated software, people who have downloaded thousands of programs. People are strange.
wvbdmp 2 hours ago [-]
umm it’s called archiving, thank you very much.
nostrademons 48 minutes ago [-]
It said it was AT&T, which probably implies AT&T Fiber. Gigabit fiber.
well_ackshually 2 hours ago [-]
A few decades back, someone I know had entire CD towers worth of burned CDs & DVDs of porn. Easily onto the thousand discs.
This was mostly a hoarding thing. Hoarders gonna hoard.
leni536 1 hours ago [-]
I'm torn on this. While I can imagine Meta being morally corrupt enough to do all of this, I just can't imagine an exec taking on personal liability for the company.
stewartadam 4 minutes ago [-]
When they start torrenting on residential IP addresses and bring the content to work to train their AI, they should be.
bravoetch 3 hours ago [-]
1 - How are people torrenting and not using a VPN? 2 - How are judges still allowing this business model of sharing files then trying to shake down people that download them?
KaiserPro 35 minutes ago [-]
> not using a VPN
because in some cases VPNs tie to you neatly to an action better than just home internet.
With a VPN, you have much less deniability, because its tied to a device often with a username and password.
CatchACode 4 minutes ago [-]
What cases are you talking about?
My general understanding is that if the VPN provider does not keep any logs, all that is left is timing / bandwidth correlation. If the endpoint you are connecting to isn't compromised and you connect to a high traffic node wouldn't this be essentially impossible?
Unless you do some user error stuff like logging into accounts tied to your public persona?
throw03172019 14 minutes ago [-]
What’s the argument if it’s on your Home internet?
RealityVoid 2 hours ago [-]
In countries with lax enforcement VPN use is not really needed.
tonyedgecombe 1 hours ago [-]
In the UK you get a stern letter from your ISP and that's it.
ranger_danger 2 hours ago [-]
How do you know the IP in question was not the final hop of someone's VPN connection?
harshreality 47 minutes ago [-]
Sure, that's plausible... a facebook exec so dumb that they're using their personal ISP connection to run a VPN for others, and even dumber that they don't notice or don't care about a massive amount of torrent traffic through that VPN.
It's not really a VPN for piracy purposes unless it's a commercial, no-log VPN. Since when a VPN is used to move the point at which traffic enters the internet, the owner of the VPN exit will be held to account.
They can try to claim they were running a "private" VPN and gave random people (from reddit and discord) internet access through it. They can try to claim they don't keep logs. Meanwhile, for a facebook VP with suspected activity tied to facebook corporate, the rightsholder will subpoena every digital device in the person's home, depose all their family and close friends, subpoena their facebook email...
nostrademons 50 minutes ago [-]
Are you confusing Tor with a VPN? With a VPN the IP is a commercial server run by the VPN provider, and there's usually just one hop (you run an encrypted connection between yourself and the VPN provider that all your traffic is routed over, then the VPN provider makes outgoing connections on your behalf). You're relying on the VPN provider's promise to not log customer connections, but if they are honest, all connections seem like they're coming from the VPN provider and aren't traceable beyond that.
With Tor, you connect to a random Tor node (which may be another residential computer), which connects to a node in the middle, which connects to an exit node, which forwards your requests on to their final destination. All connections look like they come from the exit node, which might be someone's residential IP.
kodoman 2 hours ago [-]
yeah everyone knows the losses they argue for are bullshit, I really think people should see how many times lawyers and other legal professionals give each other jobs by creating a world in which they are more and more needed.
Of course legal professionals are always needed but so much of what is done today is just a kind of rent seeking.
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meindnoch 19 minutes ago [-]
My hero.
kodoman 3 hours ago [-]
Very dumb but what if he claims he was only using to train an AI model, what was that ruling on copyright material being ok to training AI models on. Would this hold up in court or not?
hackingonempty 2 hours ago [-]
Downloading it and making a copy on your disk are separate potentially infringing events from copying into memory and a model.
gorbachev 2 hours ago [-]
I don't know a single company where an executive would be downloading training data themselves.
The only exception would be a very small startup, which isn't the case here, or all IT, admin and engineering staff told the company they aren't doing anything illegal for Zuckerberg. That's not going to happen at Meta either.
ElProlactin 2 hours ago [-]
> I don't know a single company where an executive would be downloading training data themselves.
Maybe an ethically bankrupt company with a "move fast and break things" ethos looking for exactly the plausible deniability your comment hints at?
12_throw_away 35 minutes ago [-]
> the plausible deniability
Well now I'm hoping this makes it to a courtroom, so that the plaintiffs can ask, on the court record and under penalty of perjury, exactly what he was using that quantity of pornography for. When, how often, and so on. (Not that there's anything wrong or shameful about that, in general, but it would confirm my biases about what executives do all day.)
horsawlarway 2 hours ago [-]
They might be in the clear if they were solely downloading (might) but if he's also seeding then it's just copyright violations.
modeless 2 hours ago [-]
Pretty sure you could unredact this based on the length of the name in this font. People who redact things don't really think very hard.
loeg 2 hours ago [-]
Between that and the tenure, yeah.
2 hours ago [-]
loeg 2 hours ago [-]
The idea that you'd get notified of infringing activity on corporate network and deliberately shift to residential without changing the activity is crazy. Like, it's hard to believe anyone is that dumb.
> Meta also flags a contradiction in Strike 3’s theory that downloads were switched to the home connection hours after the March 2025 warning. Strike 3’s own complaint alleges that Meta’s “off-infra” activity started in 2018, and that downloads on corporate IP addresses continued long after the notice.
Oh. The connection is maybe more tenuous than Strike 3 claims.
mewse-hn 60 minutes ago [-]
> Oh. The connection is maybe more tenuous than Strike 3 claims.
Yeah they seem to be following the time-honored legal strategy of throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks
flerchin 3 hours ago [-]
Or his kid, spouse, or other household member...
eli 3 hours ago [-]
Hours after they alerted Meta that similar activity was happening from their corporate network?
loeg 2 hours ago [-]
Read to the end. It isn't really clear how much causality can be inferred from the hours after thing.
shadowgovt 3 hours ago [-]
That's a very dedicated kid.
Backdoored dad's work computer, how diabolical. ;)
flerchin 1 hours ago [-]
Well the porn titles leans it a little.
novok 2 hours ago [-]
Hey if the dad is into tech, decent chance the angry teenage kid is into tech too.
pjl0 42 minutes ago [-]
And probably back doors, too. Gotta verify in the downloads though.
3 hours ago [-]
tyre 3 hours ago [-]
There was huge traffic from Meta's corporate networks.
SV_BubbleTime 3 hours ago [-]
I would think a Meta Executive who was into torrenting would know they likely had enough to lose to use something other than their home IP address.
Read the book, you will never trust facebook again. (if you did before)
cgannett 3 hours ago [-]
It is so easy to get lulled into a false sense of security.
shadowgovt 3 hours ago [-]
I'd put good money on him thinking the odds of him getting caught were negligible.
tyre 3 hours ago [-]
Even better, they used a corporate network. The plaintiff is alleging that this was actually for work, since they were an executive at Reality Labs (home of Oculus.) They contend that the executive was testing VR porn as part of their job.
staticman2 3 hours ago [-]
This reminds me of a stand up comedy routine about people being bad at hiding their porn collections because their brain doesn't work right when they are horny.
pier25 2 hours ago [-]
“I only broke the law to train AI your honor”
mirekrusin 3 minutes ago [-]
Said Muse in metallic voice.
3 hours ago [-]
lisp2240 2 hours ago [-]
What if Meta is using its facial recognition on porn clips for blackmail and extortion?
petesergeant 2 hours ago [-]
What if the moon is secretly made of cheese?
lisp2240 23 minutes ago [-]
Your comment is rude, obnoxious, and uncalled for.
“Just hours later, Strike 3 first recorded BitTorrent infringement on John Doe’s residential IP Address,” the motion reads.
“This may suggest that Meta desired to shift infringing activity to this hidden residential IP Address in order to prevent further detection,”
Seems like there are 2 different reads to that. (a) is like they say, and Meta was using porn for AI training or something else official. Or (b) that he was personally downloading porn either at the office or a corp VPN and was told to stop by their corp It folks..
Man, if Facebook is hiring people this dumb, it's going to make me feel a lot worse about getting rejected after interviewing there.
I've lived in and around Cambridge for a very long time now. I've met a lot of Cambridge undergrads and graduates. Let me tell you: they are a mixed bag.
Don't misunderstand me: there are some very smart people at Cambridge University. Very smart indeed. And I think if you took any cohort from Cambridge Uni versus a similar cohort from another university you'd certainly find that, against most universities, the Cambridge cohort would be smarter on average. In fact the place is genuinely awash with very smart people literally everywhere.
But that doesn't mean there aren't plenty of people that went to Cambridge who clearly found a way to blag their way through the interview process that may not have been particularly closely correlated with their intellect. The same will be true of Meta, Google, etc. I swear, the interview processes at these companies are probably more of a sop to the egos of company leadership and people who already work there than they are any more effective at filtering down to good talent than less byzantine and overwrought hiring processes.
You just have to make your peace with it.
https://torrentfreak.com/meta-confirms-data-engineer-is-behi...
Usually, people who can make large decisions for the business without approval from higher-level employees.
There's then a much more serious alignment pass.
Relationships can and do pre-vouch for big pieces of this such as alignment - if you've worked with someone for a decade, you are probably mission aligned.
Which interviewers you get, vibes, which team is hiring, whether the folks in your hiring bar are grumpy, ...
Best thing you can do is know several people who can act as direct hiring manager.
Law enforcement didn’t get involved and nobody did shit about it.
Not even the last time that company was massively hacked. ;)
Essentially - this is not a suggestion.
Residential ip's map to a specific person, and it's a lot harder for them to deflect and say I'm not responsible for my own Internet connection
For example, in 2009 I worked at a record store that got raided due to such claims. The RIAA's informant claimed he had seen people selling hidden bootlegs, which absolutely wasn't happening, and that was all they needed to have cops raid the store, arrest several people and cart off boxes of not-bootlegged, sold-by-major-CD-distributors CDs. Court dates followed and the case was eventually dismissed (or settled due to being more convenient than continuing the case? I can't remember), but it still took time, money, and lawyers. And this was in 2009, when the recording industry wield less power than in 2001.
(I was running late for work that day or else I would have ended up arrested too, since I was one of the managers scheduled then. Thank god I was running late!)
> The company logged all BitTorrent activity detected from the executive’s connection, which was nearly 20,000 files.
> This includes VR adult titles made for Meta’s Quest headset. Strike 3 suggests the downloads are consistent with work to make the headset compatible with adult films.
> As recently as August 25, Strike 3 says it recorded more than 150 daily downloads, from multi-language “Mega Packs” of TV shows, movies, software and books to what it describes as AI-generated pornography and VR adult films. That included nearly a dozen of its own titles.
Seems plausible. The material contains many hours of highly detailed human interaction plus I don’t expect Meta would have moral objections given their track record.
e.g. if someone is reciting a poem they wrote in a public park, and I make a recording of that recitation, I have not violated their copyright in doing so, however I might violate their copyright by reconstructing that poem and then distributing it
I hope they drag Meta hard and get every penny for this.
Legal is usually the one initiating then engaging with HR to do enforcement.
It sounds like this person/IP was just downloading a ton of different content, of which these VR videos were are part of.
Doesn't that water down their complaint a bit? If they are trying to say they moved to a residential IP to specifically download VR content for training data, why are they also downloading unrelated eBook and other media? Seems like VR content made up a pretty small percentage of overall downloaded content.
Let me break out the world's tiniest violin for them.
[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-torrented-o...
Your ethics shouldn't be dictated by US copyright law
If your ethics deem Meta ethical, they probably need recalibrating.
I think that’s more hopium ethics.
I am hard pressed to believe that this was for the exec.
what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander
I just wnat to know what bandwidth this exec has at his house. I want it.
It's about having the library, not about reading the books.
This was mostly a hoarding thing. Hoarders gonna hoard.
because in some cases VPNs tie to you neatly to an action better than just home internet.
With a VPN, you have much less deniability, because its tied to a device often with a username and password.
It's not really a VPN for piracy purposes unless it's a commercial, no-log VPN. Since when a VPN is used to move the point at which traffic enters the internet, the owner of the VPN exit will be held to account.
They can try to claim they were running a "private" VPN and gave random people (from reddit and discord) internet access through it. They can try to claim they don't keep logs. Meanwhile, for a facebook VP with suspected activity tied to facebook corporate, the rightsholder will subpoena every digital device in the person's home, depose all their family and close friends, subpoena their facebook email...
With Tor, you connect to a random Tor node (which may be another residential computer), which connects to a node in the middle, which connects to an exit node, which forwards your requests on to their final destination. All connections look like they come from the exit node, which might be someone's residential IP.
Of course legal professionals are always needed but so much of what is done today is just a kind of rent seeking.
The only exception would be a very small startup, which isn't the case here, or all IT, admin and engineering staff told the company they aren't doing anything illegal for Zuckerberg. That's not going to happen at Meta either.
Maybe an ethically bankrupt company with a "move fast and break things" ethos looking for exactly the plausible deniability your comment hints at?
Well now I'm hoping this makes it to a courtroom, so that the plaintiffs can ask, on the court record and under penalty of perjury, exactly what he was using that quantity of pornography for. When, how often, and so on. (Not that there's anything wrong or shameful about that, in general, but it would confirm my biases about what executives do all day.)
> Meta also flags a contradiction in Strike 3’s theory that downloads were switched to the home connection hours after the March 2025 warning. Strike 3’s own complaint alleges that Meta’s “off-infra” activity started in 2018, and that downloads on corporate IP addresses continued long after the notice.
Oh. The connection is maybe more tenuous than Strike 3 claims.
Yeah they seem to be following the time-honored legal strategy of throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks
Backdoored dad's work computer, how diabolical. ;)