Complaint Claims Meta Is a Porn Pirate: Will Strike 3 Strike Out?
Acompany that has filed more than 6,000 copyright lawsuits against individual defendants—quickly settling most for amounts carefully calculated below the cost of defense—has now set its sights on Meta, a corporation worth more than $1 trillion.
Strike 3 Holdings’ recent lawsuit against the tech giant alleging widespread piracy for training of artificial intelligence represents a dramatic strategic shift that will test whether technical evidence sufficient to extract settlements from resource-constrained individuals can survive the scrutiny of one of the world’s most well-funded legal departments. The case also promises to reveal whether Strike 3’s business model represents legitimate copyright enforcement or a sophisticated form of legal extortion that finally picked the wrong target.
For full disclosure, I’ve been retained as an economics expert by individual defendants in several other cases in which Strike 3 has alleged copyright infringement. I offer my thoughts based on my experiences.