Overview

• Strike 3 Holdings and Counterlife Media filed suit on July 23 in California federal court, accusing Meta of pirating at least 2,396 adult films via BitTorrent since 2018 to train its AI models.
• The plaintiffs say proprietary forensics, including packet-capture records, tied 47 Meta-controlled IPs, six virtual private clouds and one residential address to repeated torrent distribution.
• According to the complaint, Meta intentionally seeded high-resolution videos to leverage BitTorrent’s tit-for-tat algorithm and accelerate downloads of other content.
• The studios are seeking up to $359 million in statutory damages plus an injunction to bar Meta from using their films in future AI development.
• A Meta spokesperson said the company is reviewing the complaint and does not believe the allegations are accurate.