Overview

• Strike 3 Holdings filed its lawsuit on July 28, 2025, alleging Meta used BitTorrent to download and seed its pornographic videos over several years for AI training.
• The complaint cites more than 100,000 unauthorized distribution transactions linked to Meta’s corporate IPs and matched infringement patterns characteristic of AI data collection.
• Plaintiffs allege Meta concealed its torrenting through a stealth network of six virtual private clouds and directed an employee to use a residential IP to obscure the data trail.
• Strike 3 is seeking injunctive relief to purge all adult content from Meta’s AI training datasets and bar any future use of its copyrighted videos.
• The case follows earlier suits over pirated books and underscores intensifying legal scrutiny of how tech companies source data for artificial intelligence.