The claimants, all members of the Motion Picture Association of America holding copyright in a large number of films and TV programmes, were granted a blocking order preventing the use of Popcorn Time, an open source streaming application which used the BitTorrent protocol to download the claimants’ copyright content.
A full summary of this case has been published on Kluwer IP Law and this case is discussed on the Kluwer Copyright Blog here.
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