YouTube rippers FLVTO.biz and 2conv.com are opposing Magistrate Judge Buchanan’s recommendation to award $82 million in piracy damages to the RIAA. The Judge’s findings are in direct contravention of the law, they argue, because the music companies failed to provide evidence of any infringing activity taking place in the United States.

Last October, the RIAA secured a major victory in its piracy lawsuit against YouTube-rippers FLVTO.biz and 2conv.com and their Russian operator Tofig Kurbanov.

A Virginia federal court issued a default judgment in favor of several prominent music companies after the defendant walked away from the lawsuit.

According to the order, there is a clear need to deter the behavior of Kurbanov who failed to hand over evidence including server logs. “A less drastic sanction is unlikely to salvage this case,” the Judge wrote.

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