{"id":25691,"date":"2025-07-30T16:24:40","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T13:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/meta-accused-of-distributing-copyrighted-adult-content\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T16:24:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T13:24:40","slug":"meta-accused-of-distributing-copyrighted-adult-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/meta-accused-of-distributing-copyrighted-adult-content\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta Accused of Distributing Copyrighted Adult Content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years, Meta has allegedly downloaded copyrighted adult content via torrent networks to train its AI models. This is detailed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Strike-3-Holdings-v-Meta-Complaint-7-23-25.pdf\">new lawsuit<\/a> filed by two companies from the adult industry.<\/p>\n<p>Strike 3 Holdings and Counterlife Media have accused Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s firm of &#8220;wilful and deliberate&#8221; copyright infringement on at least 2,396 films since 2018.<\/p>\n<p>According to the document, Meta downloaded adult films &#8220;to obtain content for training its Movie Gen film generation model and other neural networks that use video as training material.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The company allegedly did this without permission and with the intent to distribute the videos &#8220;to accelerate the download of vast amounts of other content.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Popular torrent networks are used not only for downloading media files. They are peer-to-peer data exchange platforms where users directly share file fragments with each other.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit claims that Meta not only downloaded pornographic content but also provided it to other users, deriving benefit from this activity.<\/p>\n<p>Strike 3 Holdings, whose websites attract over 25 million visitors a month, is seeking compensation that could reach $359 million. The company is also pursuing a court order to prevent the distribution of its content.<\/p>\n<p>In June, federal judge William Alsup <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/landmark-ruling-court-permits-anthropic-to-train-ai-on-copyrighted-books\">ruled<\/a> that the company Anthropic had the right to train models on published books without the authors&#8217; permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, Meta has allegedly downloaded copyrighted adult content via torrent networks to train its AI models. This is detailed in a new lawsuit filed by two companies from the adult industry. Strike 3 Holdings and Counterlife Media have accused Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s firm of &#8220;wilful and deliberate&#8221; copyright infringement on at least 2,396 films since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1667,438,1293],"class_list":["post-25691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-adult-content","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-meta"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"93","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}