Two adult film companies are suing meta, claiming that the tech giant is illegally downloading more than 2,000 adult films to train artificial intelligence.
Adult film producers attacked three Holdings, and CounterLife Media said since 2018, Meta has infringed at least 2,396 copyrighted films since 2018, according to a lawsuit filed in California.
The two production companies are seeking massive damages totaling $359 million.
According to TorrentFreak, Strike 3 is the most active party involved in copyright or litigation in the United States. The company primarily targets individual BitTorrent Pirates, who shoot movies and share them online for free.
The case for meta revolves around illicit BitTorrent, a way to download and share files from the Internet.
In the lawsuit, Meta argues that “Meta Film GEN, a major language model (“Lama”) intentionally downloaded the film from a pirate source to retrieve content.
Companies accuse Meta of trying to leverage BitTorrent Transfers' “Tit-for-Tat” algorithm.
“Meta made a deliberate choice to leverage plaintiffs' Motion Pictures with faster download speeds to allow other content to be compromised faster,” the complaint states.
The complaint states that Meta “is acknowledged this issue specifically and claims that the findings probably show, because of the reason. [Meta] I was chosen to distribute continuously [the companies’] Not only do you purchase subscriptions, modify and download BitTorrent clients, but also content. ”
The adult film company has discovered alleged copyright infringement after being promoted in a lawsuit filed by several authors accusing Meta of using copyrighted work without permission.
In that case, Meta admitted that he had retrieved the content from the pirate source, according to TorrentFreak.
Meta has not commented on the lawsuit. Independence I contacted the company for comment.
