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.

  • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    But wouldn’t their IT infrastructure block random employees from running torrents on the network?

    Not if the employees in question control the IT infrastructure.

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      7 hours ago

      Nah, for a company that size they’d get DMCA notices and legal would shut it down. That’s why my job finally blocked torrenting.

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        3 hours ago

        It’s possible that this is what happened.

        9TB of torrents isn’t a huge amount, I seed more than that in just a few weeks on a personal/small group seedbox. You could download 9TB in an hour or two if you had a datacenter’s link speed and hardware.