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After playing the victim for years, an investigation found that the law firm uploaded movies to sites like The Pirate Bay and then sued those who downloaded them. Movies covered by these licenses subsequently turned up on BitTorrent networks and people who downloaded them began receiving legal threats.
Over the years, rightsholders have reported many thousands of apps, often for copyrightinfringement. The anti-piracy group is known to target stream-rippers that allow people to download music from YouTube. “Search, download and play music offline wherever you are. Thus far, the app remains online.
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The ISP notes that it’s not clear how the German company detects copyrightinfringements. Neither are there any details of forensic evidence that prove any actual infringing activity. RCN continues with various other arguments explaining why the contributory and vicarious copyrightinfringement claims fail.
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The official website has over 100,000 monthly visits and, since the app is available through a variety of other download portals, the total userbase could be well over a million. In case of copyrightinfringement, please directly contact the responsible parties or the streaming websites.”
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