Dutch Anti-Piracy Group Shut down Infringing Live Streams on Facebook
https://sp-security.blogspot.com/2017/02/dutch-anti-piracy-group-shut-down.html
The
well-known anti-piracy group BREIN has just taken down a popular
Facebook page engaged in live streaming of popular movies to its
followers. The page operator faced with an ex parte court order and
agreed to settle the case for €7,500.
The
Dutch page named LiveBioscoop was created by a 23-year-old Dutch man,
who regularly streamed movies online via Facebook’s live streaming
service. The page quickly attracted more than 25,000 followers who voted
on which movies should be streamed next. Such popularity was noticed by
the Dutch press a few days ago, which reported on the unusual activity
of LiveBioscoop and a similar page, Livebios.
BREIN was quick to start investigation of the issue, and contacted the operator of the Facebook page. Facing an ex-parte court order from a local court, he agreed to cease his infringing activities and settle for €7,500. Although LiveBioscoop remained online, no movies are streamed there anymore.
BREIN explained that they decided to go to court straight away because of the gravity of the problem and opted for an ex parte injunction with a penalty, instead of first issuing a summons. The second similar Facebook page wasn’t targeted by BREIN, but was found unavailable – perhaps, its operator decided to go offline voluntarily to avoid a similar fate.
Copyright holders could also learn some lessons from this experience: for instance, it turned out that lots of LiveBioscoop users enjoyed and appreciated the social cinema visit, because people could talk in the group and discuss the movies.
This case is recognized as the first time that a Facebook live streamer settled with the anti-piracy group, although movie piracy is quite common on the social network.
Thanks to TorrentFreak for providing the source of the article.
Posted by:
BREIN was quick to start investigation of the issue, and contacted the operator of the Facebook page. Facing an ex-parte court order from a local court, he agreed to cease his infringing activities and settle for €7,500. Although LiveBioscoop remained online, no movies are streamed there anymore.
BREIN explained that they decided to go to court straight away because of the gravity of the problem and opted for an ex parte injunction with a penalty, instead of first issuing a summons. The second similar Facebook page wasn’t targeted by BREIN, but was found unavailable – perhaps, its operator decided to go offline voluntarily to avoid a similar fate.
Copyright holders could also learn some lessons from this experience: for instance, it turned out that lots of LiveBioscoop users enjoyed and appreciated the social cinema visit, because people could talk in the group and discuss the movies.
This case is recognized as the first time that a Facebook live streamer settled with the anti-piracy group, although movie piracy is quite common on the social network.
Thanks to TorrentFreak for providing the source of the article.
Posted by:
SaM
extratorrent
