Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive

https://torrentfreak.com/adult-film-producer-unmasks-prolific-john-doe-torrent-pirate-as-meta-executive/

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SV_BubbleTime•38m ago

I would think a Meta Executive who was into torrenting would know they likely had enough to lose to use something other than their home IP address.

cgannett•36m ago

It is so easy to get lulled into a false sense of security.

shadowgovt•23m ago

I'd put good money on him thinking the odds of him getting caught were negligible.

stevenwoo•23m ago

One might think to call them “Careless People”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Careless_People

chad_strategic•20m ago

Read the book, you will never trust facebook again. (if you did before)

tyre•22m ago

Even better, they used a corporate network. The plaintiff is alleging that this was actually for work, since they were an executive at Reality Labs (home of Oculus.) They contend that the executive was testing VR porn as part of their job.

staticman2•19m ago

This reminds me of a stand up comedy routine about people being bad at hiding their porn collections because their brain doesn't work right when they are horny.

flerchin•27m ago

Or his kid, spouse, or other household member...

eli•25m ago

Hours after they alerted Meta that similar activity was happening from their corporate network?

shadowgovt•24m ago

That's a very dedicated kid.

Backdoored dad's work computer, how diabolical. ;)

tyre•24m ago

There was huge traffic from Meta's corporate networks.

drewg123•24m ago

However, Strike 3 argues that this is no ordinary home pirate, using the timing of the downloads as evidence. On March 20, 2025, the porn producer’s general counsel first emailed Meta’s lawyers with forensic evidence of BitTorrent activity on the tech giant’s corporate IP addresses.
“Just hours later, Strike 3 first recorded BitTorrent infringement on John Doe’s residential IP Address,” the motion reads.
“This may suggest that Meta desired to shift infringing activity to this hidden residential IP Address in order to prevent further detection,”

Seems like there are 2 different reads to that. (a) is like they say, and Meta was using porn for AI training or something else official. Or (b) that he was personally downloading porn either at the office or a corp VPN and was told to stop by their corp It folks..

mc32•18m ago

IT is usually not the one doing the enforcement. They typically only do the monitoring and may report some activity above thresholds.

Legal is usually the one initiating then engaging with HR to do enforcement.

stevenwoo•16m ago

When I worked for office with about 40 employees in 2001 or so, the FBI came to our office to arrest a guy using I think Limewire over our high speed internet access to share music and videos. It may be so common these days they only crack down like that on really egregious abuse.

ryandvm•14m ago

> Or (b) that he was personally downloading porn either at the office or a corp VPN

Man, if Facebook is hiring people this dumb, it's going to make me feel a lot worse about getting rejected after interviewing there.

bravoetch•21m ago

1 - How are people torrenting and not using a VPN? 2 - How are judges still allowing this business model of sharing files then trying to shake down people that download them?

kodoman•17m ago

yeah everyone knows the losses they argue for are bullshit, I really think people should see how many times lawyers and other legal professionals give each other jobs by creating a world in which they are more and more needed.

Of course legal professionals are always needed but so much of what is done today is just a kind of rent seeking.

kodoman•19m ago

Very dumb but what if he claims he was only using to train an AI model, what was that ruling on copyright material being ok to training AI models on. Would this hold up in court or not?

horsawlarway•13m ago

They might be in the clear if they were solely downloading (might) but if he's also seeding then it's just copyright violations.

WaitWaitWha•5m ago

how long are these videos? 2,973 of them (and not even the 20,000 count)? even at 15 minute clips that is like... five years?! watching non-stop.

I am hard pressed to believe that this was for the exec.

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