Strike 3 Holdings, an adult film studio, has launched a significant copyright infringement lawsuit against Meta Platforms, Inc. The case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on July 23, 2025. The studio claims that Meta illegally downloaded and distributed nearly 2,400 of its copyrighted works using the BitTorrent protocol, sometimes on the same day new content was released.
According to the lawsuit, Strike 3 alleges that Meta used a combination of corporate, concealed, and employee-linked residential IP addresses to acquire and distribute this content. Strike 3’s detection tools, VXN Scan and Cross Reference Tool, reportedly identified over 100,000 unauthorized distributions tied to Meta’s infrastructure.
The complaint further suggests that Meta used the content to train its AI models, including LLaMA 4 and Movie Gen. This could potentially enable Meta to create content similar to Strike 3’s productions, threatening the studio’s competitive edge.
Strike 3 is seeking statutory damages and a permanent injunction to stop Meta from using its works. They also want all identified files removed from Meta’s systems. The studio insists it never authorized Meta to use its films for AI training or any other purpose and cites previous legal actions involving Meta’s alleged use of pirated content to train their language models.
As of now, Meta has not issued a public response to these allegations.
