Advertiser on piracy site sued for contributory and induced copyright infringement - GoFuckYourself.com

Dirty Dane · 08-31-2010, 09:06 PM

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Warner Bros. and the Walt Disney Co. have teamed up in a new legal effort to choke off the air supply of various websites that post and index links to pirated movies.

The two studios are suing Triton Media, alleged to have provided advertising consulting and referrals for nine websites identified as "one-stop-shops" for infringing works.

Warners and Disney claim that Triton committed contributory copyright infringement and induced copyright infringement via their advertising assistance. The lawsuit indicates that Hollywood may be on the verge of expanding its hit-list of targets in the ongoing war against piracy.

The complaint was filed on Tuesday in U.S. District Court in California and is rather thin on specific details of Triton's services to these websites.

Instead, it largely focuses on the misdeeds of the sites. The two studios identify free-tv-video-online.info, supernovatube.com, donogo.com, watch-movies.net, watch-movies-online.tv, watch-movies-links.net, havenvideo.com and piratecity.org as providing users access to content that has been unlawfully reproduced. The websites are said to either host infringing content themselves or link to other third-party websites that have infringing content.

All of these websites could themselves be liable for a contributory infringement claim, but the studios have instead decided to reach out even further by taking action against a larger business in Triton.

Triton allegedly enables these websites to operate and has actual knowledge that the sites are participating in copyright infringement.

The two studios aren't the first to attempt to crack down on piracy by targeting so-called facilitators. Adult entertainment publisher Perfect 10 sued Mastercard and Visa in 2004, alleging the two credit card companies provided "crucial transactional support services" to pirate websites. A district court dismissed the case, and later the Ninth Circuit upheld it, determining that Perfect 10 had failed to support any theory of liability against the defendants.

Some legal observers have argued that Perfect 10 wasn't the "perfect plaintiff" to bring the case. It appears that Warners and Disney, represented by the anti-piracy experts at Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, want to take a shot at being the very plaintiff that might expand the definition of contributory copyright infringement.

The studios are seeking unspecified monetary damages as well as an injunction that would prevent Triton from doing business with these websites.

Source: http://thresq.hollywoodreporter.com/...y-lawsuit.html

Will be interesting to see how this one turns out.

DBS.US · 08-31-2010, 09:09 PM

About fucking time

DaddyHalbucks · 08-31-2010, 09:10 PM

I have been predicting this for years.

Barefootsies · 08-31-2010, 09:19 PM

These types of cases are thrown out of court, or have been, at least a half dozen times in the past year. XBIZ has covered it almost monthly, if not every other month.

Some company sues, and names everyone they can possibly think of, it gets to court, and the judge throws out, or dismisses, everyone who is not directly involved.

FlexxAeon · 08-31-2010, 09:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Barefootsies

These types of cases are thrown out of court, or have been, at least a half dozen times in the past year. XBIZ has covered it almost monthly, if not every other month.

Some company sues, and names everyone they can possibly think of, it gets to court, and the judge throws out, or dismisses, everyone who is not directly involved.

yeah but this is The Mouse and Warner - that legal team must be ridiculously deep. it'll be a better fight, if not just a plain beatdown

Barefootsies · 08-31-2010, 09:46 PM

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Originally Posted by FlexxAeon

yeah but this is The Mouse and Warner - that legal team must be ridiculously deep. it'll be a better fight, if not just a plain beatdown

Time v'ill tell. Sooner or later... Time v'ill tell.....

DBS.US · 08-31-2010, 09:50 PM

Don't fuck with The Mouse

Paul Markham · 09-01-2010, 02:55 AM

This industry should of gone after the companies who advertised on Tube sites from day 1. Instead it kept sending them traffic.

Talk about fucked up.

Phoenix · 09-01-2010, 03:09 AM

what is triton doing though?

i would have focused on the website owners themselves

unless it is secretly triton which is what they hope to find out

or perhaps for the people advertising there

ottopottomouse · 09-01-2010, 03:16 AM

Never understood how advertising on a warez site is going to produce any real clicks/customers.

Zyber · 09-01-2010, 03:30 AM

Maybe they should also go after PayPal. You see PayPal used as payment option on almost all file-sharing sites.

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