Meta Employee Deleted 9TB of Torrented Files, Adult Film Producers Claim

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https://torrentfreak.com/meta-employee-deleted-9tb-of-torrented-files-adult-film-producers-claim/

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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
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.

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- pulsewidth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Your casual 9 TB of porn.
  
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  - one_old_coder@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    To be fair, if I had the money, I would make my own porn NAS too.
    
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  - GreenShimada@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    9 TB of work porn.
    
    Considering it was Meta, it’s probably 90% CSAM anyway.
    
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  - Railcar8095@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    A quick wank, really
    
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  - brsrklf@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Absolutely. Or, as they say, “sporadic”.
    
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- FishFace@piefed.social ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  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.
  
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  - brsrklf@jlai.lu ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    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.
    
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- altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Too early for the Metaverse, just in time for Metawankers.
  
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- Spacehooks@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Meta has such nice work benefits. They offer a special room for viewing too or just have a wank at desk?
  
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SirSamuel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
At first I was like “9TB!? That’s like a billion bajillion. It’s like Dr Evil demanding $100 billion in 1969!”

And then I realized I have over 9TB of liberated media on my NAS. I really need to adjust my concept of technology, not to mention the passage of time.

I mean, 911 was only ten years ago, right? Right!?

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- FauxPseudo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  As of 9-11 I had a gig and a half of liberated media collected from Usenet. I know because I was running out of space on my external hard drive (connected by the printer port) and the bios was limited to two gb.
  
  It’s amazing how far we have come in just, checks notes, 10 years.
  
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  - SirSamuel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I’m surprised you didn’t have a series of backup tape drivers connected by SCSI lol
    
    Oh wait, that’s more like twelve year old technology
    
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  - frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    You had an external hard drive on a parallel port? I’ve never heard of such a thing. You sure it wasn’t scsi? Or maybe even centronics?
    
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- remon@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Those are rookie numbers, you need to up your game!
  
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jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
From the article, the 9tb are related to the other case, which is about book data.

Meta’s response that this is personal use is actually a pretty good argument. This case mentions something like 157 downloads over the last seven years. That does sound like it could be random employees. Plausibly.

But wouldn’t their IT infrastructure block random employees from running torrents on the network? If it was company directed, wouldn’t they use like a VPN from some regular common VPN provider so that this all looked like some random Joe downloading porn rather than Meta? It does mention they allegedly have some “secret” IPs on AWS, which is also funny to me.

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- FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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- CriticalMiss@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I don’t know any self respecting sysadmin that doesn’t block P2P in their network. Most enterprise nowadays don’t even require any fancy set up, it’s a toggle switch away. I don’t buy the “oopsie we didn’t know” excuse. They were permitted to torrent by design.
  
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  - eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Seriously, ain’t nobody torrenting terabytes of porn at work without approval.
    
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- HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  But what if the people in question on the IT guys?
  
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billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Those are rookie numbers

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Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Gee, that’s a lot of homework.

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