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The high-stakes lawsuit between adult content producers and tech giant Meta over the alleged downloads of copyright-infringing videos is heating up. In a new filing, Strike 3 claims that a Meta employee allegedly deleted over 9 terabytes of torrented files. Meta notes that this claim, which originates from an unrelated case, is mischaracterized and irrelevant. Regardless of the outcome of these and other ongoing discovery disputes, both parties aim for a trial in 2028.

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[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 117 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I don't think I really care who wins that one, but :

Meta responded in October by filing a motion to dismiss, arguing the sporadic downloads were consistent with ordinary ‘personal use’ by employees and visitors on the corporate network.

Oh, yeah, just your ordinary downloading porn on the corporate network of a tech giant megacorp, as you do.

Either a lie or an admission of baffling incompetence.

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 77 points 1 week ago (5 children)
[–] one_old_coder@piefed.social 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

To be fair, if I had the money, I would make my own porn NAS too. I would call it "the NASS" or something.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 16 points 1 week ago

I’d go with ”Freak NASty”

[–] tordenflesk@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I don't have "the money" and I have 22...

[–] Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

22TB or 22 porn NASSes?

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

That's some dedication

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It wasn't 9TB of porn, the title is very misleading. Strike3's formal complaint is about 157 downloads over a period of 7 years.

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Damn, the title got me. Thanks for the correction.

[–] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Gotta be at the office.

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

9 TB of work porn.

Considering it was Meta, it's probably 90% CSAM anyway.

[–] mPony@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

You wouldn't download a 9

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 2 points 1 week ago

Absolutely. Or, as they say, "sporadic".

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Do you think tech companies filter their employees' internet?

They have tens of thousands of employees, a few of them are bound to download some porn at some point. And the amount downloaded is about 20 files per year on average.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not a company since I'm in public administration, but my structure has a few thousands workers, most of them having access in some form to the network.

They do filter our internet. I don't give a fuck whether people consume porn with their own devices and connections. But if you can download porn, you can download anything, including malware. And a bad actor having access to data on our network would be disastrous.

Unfortunately, meta has that kind of data too. In fact hoarding private data is what their business is about. Not securing their network is criminal.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 0 points 1 week ago

Tech companies, as a general rule, do not filter the internet of their employees, because those employees generally need to do a lot of stuff with the internet (or networking besides the internet) and filtering it would cause a lot of problems.

Production machines (where the data lives) can be much more restricted than work machines. Strong access controls mean that compromising a work machine doesn't give you access to production data.

[–] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

Too early for the Metaverse, just in time for Metawankers.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 3 points 1 week ago

Meta has such nice work benefits. They offer a special room for viewing too or just have a wank at desk?