Pirate Site Israel.TV Hit With $7.65M Judgment
Streaming video pirate site Israel.TV must pay Israeli video content companies $7.65 million in statutory damages plus legal fees and costs, per a default judgment order Wednesday (docket 1:21-cv-11024) in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. The order said Israel.TV never…
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responded or otherwise appeared in the suit. The order said if the plaintiffs find any newly created domains operated by the defendant, the order's permanent injunction will be amended to include them. Before seeking relief from content delivery network services provider Cloudflare, the plaintiffs will try to get relief for the identified domains from hosting providers and domain name registries, but after that Cloudflare will cease providing video streaming and content delivery services to those domains, the judgment said. Cloudflare is fighting a contempt charge being sought by the plaintiffs for its alleged role in piracy by its Israel.TV customer (see 2206170029).