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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 148 points 4 weeks 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 95 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)
[–] one_old_coder@piefed.social 31 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks 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 22 points 4 weeks ago

I’d go with ”Freak NASty”

[–] tordenflesk@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

22TB or 22 porn NASSes?

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 2 points 4 weeks ago

That's some dedication

[–] M137@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago
[–] village604@adultswim.fan 16 points 4 weeks 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 5 points 4 weeks ago

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

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 12 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

9 TB of work porn.

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

[–] mPony@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

You wouldn't download a 9

[–] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 11 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

Gotta be at the office.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

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

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 4 points 3 weeks 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 5 points 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 points 4 weeks ago

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

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 3 points 4 weeks ago

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