Judge Rules Blacked.com Can Sue Meta for Scraping Its Porn
A federal judge has ruled that Meta Platforms can be sued by Strike 3 Holdings, the parent company of adult film sites like Blacked.com, for allegedly scraping copyrighted content. The judge rejected Meta's argument that the scraping was not intentional or that individual employees were responsible, citing evidence of coordinated downloading activity across Meta's IP addresses. The court found that Strike 3 Holdings had plausibly alleged copyright infringement, regardless of whether Meta ultimately used the scraped videos for AI model training. AI
IMPACT This ruling could set a precedent for how AI companies source training data and impact the legal landscape for copyright in the digital age.