Overview
- Strike 3 alleges Meta corporate IPs downloaded about 2,396 of its films via BitTorrent and used them to train Movie Gen and other AI models.
- Meta’s filing in the Northern District of California denies any model training on adult content and cites roughly 22 downloads per year on corporate addresses as evidence of isolated activity.
- The complaint says the downloads began in 2018, a timeline Meta argues undercuts claims tied to its later multimodal and generative‑video research.
- Strike 3 claims Meta concealed activity through a “stealth network” of roughly 2,500 hidden IP addresses, an allegation Meta contests.
- Strike 3 seeks more than $350 million in damages, and the court will consider Meta’s dismissal request after the plaintiff files its response in the coming two weeks.