So Meta says pirating is not theft if it‘s for personal use, huh? Good to know.
this post was submitted on 03 Nov 2025
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Oh no it’s totally cool according to them. You can pirate at least 80tb worth of books, and then sell material based on it. It’s cool.
The catch is you can only commit crimes if you're a billion dollar corporation!
I thought that was weird, too, but that's not what they're arguing actually. Their argument is that these were pirated for personal use by various people on the company network over a course of years and that the IP address is not sufficient to identify the appropriate defendant (not Meta). Accordingly, they argue the case should be dropped because tje pleading does not, and cannot from what has been provided, identify a correct defendant. At first blush, it isn't an unreasonable argument. It would be like suing a university for detecting porn torrents on its network over a number of years (and alleging that the relatively small number of torrents were for AI research/training data).
Guess pirating for personal use is on the table now, boys!
Like that justifies it...
Why the ai slop? It's not really needed for anything. You wasted a gallon of water for that?
Does this even make any difference outside of Switzerland (were pirating for personal use is actually legal)?
Strike 3 Holdings and Counterlife Media, which are known for popular adult brands including Vixen, Tushy, Blacked, and Deeper, filed a copyright infringement complaint at a California federal court. The companies allege that Meta downloaded at least 2,396 of their films since 2018, allegedly to aid their AI video training.
“[T]he small number of downloads—roughly 22 per year on average across dozens of Meta IP addresses—is plainly indicative of private personal use, not a concerted effort to collect the massive datasets Plaintiffs allege are necessary for effective AI training,” Meta writes
Math ain't mathing
≈ 22 per year per ip x 20 different ips x over 8 years.
There's also like 70 000 people working for meta, so having 20 perverts that download a porn movie on their work computer every 3 weeks kind of tracks.
Wow, I didn't realize Anal Butt Pirates had 2000+ volumes. I've fallen behind, no pun in ten did.