The judge found that Meta’s attempt to blame the pirating of thousands of Vixen.com and Tushy.com porn videos on rogue employees “strains credulity.”
  • UnpopularCrow@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    11 days ago

    I think the best part of the article (besides the decision of course) is the following:

    “A Strike 3 Holding investigation found that 47 IP addresses belonging to Meta were used to torrent 2,396 of its videos a total of 6,008 times between 2018 and 2025.”

    If videos are being downloaded more than once, it’s hard to argue it’s just for model training. lol.

    • toiletobserver@lemmy.worldEnglish
      29·
      11 days ago

      $150,000 fine per civil infringement X 6,008 instances… $901,200,000.

      Now assume a settlement for half the value and it’s still $450M

      Do it porn industry! On principle.

  • SleeplessCityLights@programming.devEnglish
    331·
    11 days ago

    They are mostly getting hit because they seeded, which is hilarious that even Meta couldn’t risk get banned for hit and run on a tracker.

  • GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.mlEnglish
    21·
    11 days ago

    Does this pave the way forward for all published content, then? Especially if they win their case against meta (or more likely just receive a fat settlement out of court)

    • Séimhe (sé / é)@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      11 days ago

      This seems to mean that Meta can’t have the case dismissed. So I’m guessing that other companies who can demonstrate similar downloading patterns, or present similar evidence can also bring a case forward.

      I’d imagine that the outcome of the case will be more telling.

  • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    11 days ago

    Cue settlement because Meta cannot stomach discovery on this one. As the article shows, this lawsuit comes from discovery in a different lawsuit. These are the sorts of dominos that trigger settlements.

    • Burninator05@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      11 days ago

      The settlement should include the removal of anything that was gained by training on the data. Meta will complain that the data is too ingrained in the model and can’t be removed. They likely aren’t wrong but that does not seem like Blacked’s problem. Maybe sell them a license to continue to use the data at $200k per year per video until they can definitively prove that none of the data is still in the model?

  • Jhex@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    11 days ago

    I hope Meta get it like one of those tiny blonde girls I’ve heard feature in Blached videos tehehehehe