The proposed injunction would not just apply to the Popcorn Time operators, it also required third-party Internet services to take action.įor example, third-party service providers, including Cloudflare and Google, would have to stop people from accessing alternative Popcorn Time domains such as popcorn-ru.tk. Since the Popcorn Time operators failed to respond in court, the filmmakers requested a default judgment of millions of dollars in damages as well as a broad injunction. The settlement didn’t end the lawsuit completely as the anonymous operators of Popcorntime.app were targeted in the same case. In response, the VPN announced that it would stop using US-based servers, to ensure the privacy of its users. Last week it settled the case by agreeing, among other things, that it would block BitTorrent traffic and keep logs on US servers. VPN.ht is one of the companies that was sued. This includes VPN providers and their hosting companies.

This year we have seen a series of complaints in US courts where filmmakers sued third-party services for facilitating piracy. Copyright holders have tried a wide variety of legal options to tackle online piracy, including lawsuits.

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