Overview
- Meta’s motion argues the flagged BitTorrent activity was sporadic—about 22 downloads a year—consistent with personal use rather than coordinated data collection for model training.
- The filing says plaintiffs rely on IP addresses without identifying any individuals or showing links to Meta employees or AI teams, calling the claims “guesswork and innuendo.”
- Strike 3 alleged nearly 2,400 downloads tied to Meta and a separate “stealth network” of 2,500 obscured addresses, while Meta says only 157 of the films were tied to corporate IPs across 47 addresses.
- Meta contends the activity dates to 2018, predating its multimodal and generative‑video research, and says it does not train models on explicit material.
- Plaintiffs seek roughly $359 million and a permanent ban on Meta’s use of their works; Strike 3 has about two weeks to respond before the California federal court considers the motion.