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Meta Accuses Employee’s Dad of Downloading Gigantic Illegal Goon Stash

Joe Wilkins

created: Nov. 8, 2025, 1:15 p.m. | updated: Nov. 18, 2025, 1:09 p.m.

Just when you thought you’ve seen it all, Meta comes out and accuses a random man of hosting a trove of illegally torrented smut. To make a long story short, the two rightsholders essentially accused Meta of illegally torrenting some 2,400 skin flicks to train its AI systems. There’s also the smoking gun to consider — as the copyright industry publication TorrentFreak reported, Meta was caught with their pants down hosting 47 IP addresses linked to the illegal distribution of all those dirty movies. Yet to hear the tech giant tells it, the videos were actually downloaded “for private personal use,” as flagged by Gizmodo. In other words, Meta’s arguing that it isn’t their professional goon stash — but instead some worker’s dad whose torrenting habit happened to be detected in a sweep of illegal activity on IP addresses related to its corporate activities.

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