Strike 3 Holdings Sued Meta. Meta Answered With Your Defense.
July 28, 2026
Somebody was downloading Ted Lasso. Episode five, then episode two, then episode eight. Out of order. Nobody watches Ted Lasso out of order. That detail comes from Exhibit B of a copyright complaint pending in federal court in San Jose, and it sits at the center of the strangest copyright case in America right now: Strike 3 Holdings, LLC v. Meta Platforms, Inc., No. 5:25-cv-06213 (N.D. Cal.). The plaintiff is the most prolific copyright litigant in the history of the federal courts. The defendant is one of the largest companies on Earth. And the defense Meta is running — the argument its lawyers put in front of a federal judge — is the same defense I have spent fifteen years raising for the people Strike 3 usually sues.
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