Strike 3 Holdings is often in the news for suing downloaders of the pornographic movies it owns, and whoever there monitors IP addresses must have thought it was Christmas: a network of thousands of IP addresses that ultimately led to the corporate network of Meta, the parent company of Facebook. The subsequent lawsuit accuses the tech giant of using illegally-downloaded smut to train an as-yet unannounced porn-generating AI. Meta says someone was just having a wank: "disparate individuals downloaded adult videos for personal use."

Filing a motion to dismiss the lawsuit on Monday, Meta accused Strike 3 of relying on "guesswork and innuendo," while writing that Strike 3 "has been labeled by some as a 'copyright troll' that files extortive lawsuits." Requesting that all copyright claims be

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