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News A cloud storage platform operated by technology giant Baidu has become the first service of its type to be found liable for copyright infringement in China. A Beijing court found that the rights to distribute the popular TV series ‘Eternal Love’ on the Internet were held by online video service Youku Tudou and Baidu […]
News Amazon, Netflix, and several Hollywood studios have added another victory to their legal track record. A federal court in California has granted a default judgment which orders the owner and an employee of the IPTV service Set-TV to pay over $7 million in piracy damages. The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), the anti-piracy […]
Breaking Omniverse, a now-defunct supplier of IPTV streams, has agreed to pay $50 million in piracy damages to several Hollywood studios. Omniverse initially described the piracy allegations as “scandalous” but has since stepped back from its claim. Anti-piracy group ACE, which was a driving force behind the lawsuit, is pleased with yet another legal victory. […]
Vader – formerly one of the most visible brands in the pirate IPTV space – shut down in May amid mysterious circumstances. As was initially suspected, it’s now confirmed the platform was targeted by the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment. Following a secret legal process in Canada, the service is now on the hook for […]
When Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN caught up with an eBook pirate, the company gave the man a chance to settle relatively cheaply. However, after failing to pay up, a judge has now ordered the man to pay three times as much money cited in the original agreement. “Whoever burns his buttocks must sit on the […]
A California Federal Court ordered the now-defunct IPTV service SET TV to pay $7.6 million in piracy damages. In addition, the company is forbidden from operating a similar service in the future. The default judgment was issued in favor of several major Hollywood studios, Amazon, and Netflix, which filed the lawsuit last year. Last year […]
Dailymotion has been ordered to pay Italian broadcasting giant RTI €5.5m in compensation after failing to take down copyrighted TV shows. The Court of Rome ruled that the video platform can be held liable for infringing uploads by its users and requires it to remove content, even when no specific URLs are pointed out. Similar […]
A member of a release team that uploaded thousands of torrents to The Pirate Bay, KickassTorrents and ExtraTorrent faces new action after failing to pay a settlement agreed with BREIN. In 2016, three group members agreed to pay €67,500 between them, but only two paid. BREIN now has a court order to enforce the debt […]
Video streaming service VidAngel, which allows users to filter objectionable content from movies and TV-shows, has to pay $62.4 million to Disney and Warner Bros. The company is liable for copyright infringement after it streamed movies without permission of the rightsholders. In addition, it violated the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provision, by ripping DVDs. Founded in 2013, […]
A self-proclaimed prolific Pirate Bay user from Hawaii has agreed to a $2,900 consent judgment. The makers of the movies “Boyka: Undisputed IV” and “Mechanic: Resurrection” initially targeted the wrong person. However, after a follow-up investigation, they turned the case into a win. Every year, thousands of people are sued in the United States for […]