Last year 12 month, Paramount Pictures, universal, Warner, Colombia, Disney vs. Netflix 10 One of the most popular pirate streaming sites of the year PrimeWire Filed a lawsuit.

In order to prevent PrimeWire Provides links to a large number of movies and TV shows, The plaintiffs obtained a preliminary injunction, requirement PrimeWire Stop infringing their copyright. PrimeWire Intends to continue business as usual, But when its domain name becomes the subject of law enforcement action, PrimeWire Operators seem to have changed course, After announcing a new domain name primewire. tf after, PrimeWire Removed all links to pirated content, It later promised to introduce upload filters. PrimeWire Traffic has plummeted over the years, PrimeWire Operates multiple domain names, And switch between them to avoid being caught by individual countries／The network service provider in the region is blocked.

In its. ag After the domain name is suspended, PrimeWire Start to pass. li and. vc Variant operation, Once in full "legalize" mode, The fields will be redirected to the new one. tf Domain name. PrimeWire In America, Canada, Britain, Key audiences in Germany and New Zealand left the platform around the same time after the content was removed. The drop in traffic has been welcomed by Hollywood studios and Netflix, but PrimeWire the "legalize" The effort had no effect on the lawsuit. PrimeWire Failed to respond formally to the complaint, Leading to an early victory for the studio. The copyright liability is in a recent court order in California, Judge Mark．Scarcy (Mark C. Scarsi) Dealt with the plaintiff's claim against PrimeWire The operator's request for a default judgment, Scassi focused on the issue of liability and permanent bans.

Due to PrimeWire Choose not to show up, It was a one-sided case. The judge found PrimeWire It has a huge audience in the United States. Defendant and Cloudflare And the laws of the United States ( "Digital Millennium Copyright Act" ) indicate, PrimeWire Website operator "Directed instruction" The website operates in the United States. Regarding the film company's claim of inducement and joint infringement, The judge cited isoHunt Founder Gary．feng (Gary Fung) The case of, Consider the plaintiff's claim of infringement, Guilty on charges of promoting infringement and inducing infringement. Mr. Scassi ruled, Third-party hosting and streaming of copyrighted works directly infringe on a studio's rights. Defendant through operation PrimeWire Users are encouraged to provide infringing links, And make it available to the public. PrimeWire Hide one's identity, Encourage user deployment VPN To hide their identity and provide a means to connect users to illegal streaming shows, These all indicate knowledge of the infringement.

To prevent it. tf Domain name suspended, PrimeWire Has been in direct communication with the studio's legal team over the past few weeks, Said its domain name was not being used to promote piracy of movies or TV shows, But communication was not smooth. The studio's lawyer was right PrimeWire said: "We need to know who you are, If you're represented by a lawyer, Who is your lawyer. We don't want to have substantive discussions about this case with people who don't want to identify themselves. " "PrimeWire Caused substantial and irreparable harm to the plaintiff, The plaintiffs were forced to expend considerable resources to stop PrimeWire Mass infringement of his work in the United States and around the world. " The plaintiff won a liability judgment for breach of contract in a subsequent filing with the court, The studio said, PrimeWire "What does an out-of-court settlement offer made in an anonymous email mean" , And they "The failure to appear may also have been an attempt to avoid detection" , That's the factor in favor of a default judgment. If the defendant voluntarily ceases his infringing activities, The court has no power to grant an injunction, But let's be clear, The alleged wrongdoing will not be repeated. defendant "Free to appear in court and apply to set aside a declaratory judgment" , But that seems unlikely to happen. Permanent injunction request for permanent injunction PrimeWire Close and PrimeWire Operation of website "transfer" To the film company.

PrimeWire Operators are restricted and banned "link, distribute, copy, trusteeship, upload, Offer to download, index, display, Public performance or other use" Plaintiff's copyrighted works and "Take any action" Directly or indirectly let users or third parties do so. Domain name of a website (primewire. li, primewire. ag, primewire. vc, primewire. tf) Not transferable to any other registrant or registrar other than the Plaintiff's name. The court order says: "defendant, PrimeWire Site assignee and／Or interest or title heirs and／Or the domain name Registrar shall immediately transfer the domain name to the plaintiff.

If the registrar is in 5 Do not assist in transfer within days, The relevant top-level registries must take action. " With the issue of liability and permanent injunction resolved, Judge Scassi said, The plaintiff is now available in 90 Within a day (But it can be extended) Feel free to look for evidence, To determine PrimeWire The extent of the damage caused by the website. obviously, The studios will not be satisfied with closure PrimeWire, They also want monetary damages.

(Compiled from torrentfreak. com)

Reprinted from China Intellectual Property Network   translation: Rason group　proofread: Liu Peng

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