LiquidVPN Faces Lawsuit for Allegedly Promoting Pirating Content
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Virtual private networks can be great for folks wary of how their data is tracked online, but what happens when a VPN provider directly markets itself to those who would use that promise of anonymity to break the law?
LiquidVPN is now facing a lawsuit from pissed-off movie copyright holders that argue the provider purposefully billed itself as a haven for copyright infringers looking to pirate their favourite TV shows and movies and should be held liable for its users’ misdeeds. Voltage Holdings, Millennium Funding, and Hunter Killer Productions claim that LiquidVPN users illegally pirated titles such as
Legal Pressure Forces More YTS Users To Settle Piracy ClaimsÂ
January 31, 2021
Two users of the torrent site YTS have settled piracy claims worth thousands of dollars, reports TorrentFreak.Â
For those unaware, YTS, one of the most popular and largest visited torrent site on the Internet, has been in the eye of storm since last year as one of the main piracy threats. In April 2020, YTS had settled a piracy lawsuit filed in January 2020 by a group of seven related movie companies. The torrent site had agreed to a consent judgement totalling $1,050,000 in damages.
The movie companies included Venice PI LLC, MON LLC, Millennium Funding Inc., Bodyguard Productions Inc., TBV Productions LLC, UN4 Productions Inc., and Hunter Killer Productions Inc.Â
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The company behind the film Hunter Killer has sued a former phone store employee who allegedly promoted the piracy app Popcorn Time to customers. The woman in question, who already lost her job due to the accusations, also downloaded the movie herself according to a recently filed complaint.
Every year, thousands of “Doe” defendants are sued for allegedly sharing pirated videos via BitTorrent.
Most of these lawsuits follow a common pattern. The copyright holders track down an infringing IP-address, uncover the associated account holder through a subpoena, to then offer this person a settlement.
Defendants who ignore or deny the settlement offers will often be named. And if they fail to respond after that, the copyright holder will ask the court to issue a default judgment.