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August 15, 2023 [Piracy Monitor]
On August 14, a judge for the US District Court of the Central District of Texas awarded $493,850,000 statutory damages from defendants Juan Barcan and Juan Nahuel Pereyra to DISH Network and Sling TV LLC, for almost 2.5 million violations of (“Defendants”) on Plaintiffs’ claims for violations of §§1201(a)(2) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act from the operation of four piracy sites, live-nba.stream, freefeds.com, sportsbay.org and sportsbay.tv.
The original complaint by DISH and Sling TV was filed in mid-2021, which identified the four sites offering TV channels online with “No Blackouts. No signup.” Many of these channels were licensed to DISH and Sling TV, and the pirates circumvented their DRM platform, enabling the defendants to redistribute Sling programming without authorization from DISH or Sling.
The technical investigation was conducted by NagraStar, with the assistance of third parties. More than 500 pages of exhibits were filed with DISH Network’s Motion for Default Judgment, showing the infringing services that the defendants were offering. The sites were promoted over Instragram and Twitter.
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On August 14, a judge for the US District Court of the Central District of Texas awarded $493,850,000 statutory damages from defendants Juan Barcan and Juan Nahuel Pereyra to DISH Network and Sling TV LLC, for almost 2.5 million violations of (“Defendants”) on Plaintiffs’ claims for violations of §§1201(a)(2) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act from the operation of four piracy sites, live-nba.stream, freefeds.com, sportsbay.org and sportsbay.tv.
The original complaint by DISH and Sling TV was filed in mid-2021, which identified the four sites offering TV channels online with “No Blackouts. No signup.” Many of these channels were licensed to DISH and Sling TV, and the pirates circumvented their DRM platform, enabling the defendants to redistribute Sling programming without authorization from DISH or Sling.
The technical investigation was conducted by NagraStar, with the assistance of third parties. More than 500 pages of exhibits were filed with DISH Network’s Motion for Default Judgment, showing the infringing services that the defendants were offering. The sites were promoted over Instragram and Twitter.
Read more on PiracyMonitor...