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Hollywood Tries To Cripple Several Alleged Pirate TV Services In One Lawsuit (arstechnica.com)
The major Hollywood movie studios last week filed a copyright infringement suit against Omniverse One World Television Inc., which provides streaming video to several online TV services. Omniverse claims to have legal rights to the content, but the studios say it doesn't. Ars Technica reports: The complaint was filed Thursday in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California by Columbia Pictures, Disney, Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Universal, and Warner Bros. The studios previously used lawsuits to shut down the maker of a streaming device called the Dragon Box and another called TickBox. The studios' new lawsuit says that Omniverse supplied content to Dragon Box and to other alleged pirate services that are still operating.
Services using Omniverse content are advertised as "Powered by Omniverse." Besides Dragon Box, they include "SkyStream TV, Flixon TV, and Silicon Dust's HDHomeRun Service," according to the lawsuit. SkyStream, for example, offers more than 70 live TV channels for $35 a month, while pricier packages, according to the complaint, also include premium channels such as HBO. SkyStream's website says its service "is delivered In Cooperation with Omniverse One World Television." According to its website, Omniverse "partners with key distributors across the USA to empower end users with the ability to view their favorite TV channels with no contracts, no credit checks, and no long-term obligations." [T]he movie studios' lawsuit alleges that Omniverse has no rights to distribute their video content. While Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, YouTube TV, and other legitimate streaming services purchase rights to the content, Omniverse has not, the lawsuit said. The complaint asks for an injunction shutting the company down and damages of up to $150,000 for each infringed work. "Defendant Jason DeMeo and his company, Omniverse, stream Plaintiffs' copyrighted movies and television shows without authorization to an already large, and rapidly growing, number of end users," the lawsuit said. "Defendants are not, however, just an infringing, consumer-facing service, akin to Dragon Box. Defendants operate at a higher level in the supply chain of infringing content -- recruiting numerous downstream services like Dragon Box into the illicit market and providing them with access to unauthorized streams of copyrighted content. Defendants function as a 'hub' of sorts, with the enlisted downstream services as the 'spokes.' Omniverse's offering is illegal, it is growing, and it undermines the legitimate market for licensed services."
Services using Omniverse content are advertised as "Powered by Omniverse." Besides Dragon Box, they include "SkyStream TV, Flixon TV, and Silicon Dust's HDHomeRun Service," according to the lawsuit. SkyStream, for example, offers more than 70 live TV channels for $35 a month, while pricier packages, according to the complaint, also include premium channels such as HBO. SkyStream's website says its service "is delivered In Cooperation with Omniverse One World Television." According to its website, Omniverse "partners with key distributors across the USA to empower end users with the ability to view their favorite TV channels with no contracts, no credit checks, and no long-term obligations." [T]he movie studios' lawsuit alleges that Omniverse has no rights to distribute their video content. While Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, YouTube TV, and other legitimate streaming services purchase rights to the content, Omniverse has not, the lawsuit said. The complaint asks for an injunction shutting the company down and damages of up to $150,000 for each infringed work. "Defendant Jason DeMeo and his company, Omniverse, stream Plaintiffs' copyrighted movies and television shows without authorization to an already large, and rapidly growing, number of end users," the lawsuit said. "Defendants are not, however, just an infringing, consumer-facing service, akin to Dragon Box. Defendants operate at a higher level in the supply chain of infringing content -- recruiting numerous downstream services like Dragon Box into the illicit market and providing them with access to unauthorized streams of copyrighted content. Defendants function as a 'hub' of sorts, with the enlisted downstream services as the 'spokes.' Omniverse's offering is illegal, it is growing, and it undermines the legitimate market for licensed services."
I bet they'll have that pirating problem nipped in the bud by next week.
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"Most of these hollywood elitists are self prescribed, Bernie Sanders Socialists." - Citation? Oh, you mean your faggot asshole is your library also? That makes sense, world's dumbest Trump faggots on this site sometimes, lol.
Learn to read so you can lie competently, retards. You and Ken Doll will never understand how to matter if you don't learn to read.
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You mean Pesky Pirates Probably Pruned Precipitously?
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Yes yes, that's all nice and untrue.
What does this have to do with the studios suing Omniverse?
Please, do try another distraction from preventing a discussion. That's a tactic only a fool uses.
Or Trump.
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Most of these hollywood elitists are self prescribed, Bernie Sanders Socialists
Source for this? They seem more of the corporate democrat type.
Yes yes, that's all nice and untrue.
You think obstruction of justice is not a felony, that's not true? Lol? This is the new "Trump defense legal tactic" - Just pretend the law doesn't exist? Haha. You're dumber than Whitaker under oath.
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These days, the computers that run a TV or cable network make it too easy to create a webstream of the network... TV Everywhere works by making sure you subscribe to the network on cable, then giving you a URL to the webstream.
Omniverse seems to the be collecting these webstreams, and sending the URL out all over the world without providing payment to the networks. This is a violation of US copyright law, but some other places love this. If the networks wanted this to stop, they just have to firewall their streams.
As the download Whac-a-Mole game seems to be winding down, it's now a matter of protecting the copyrighted webstreams.
Back in 2000, there used to be a Politics section of slashdot, but right now you're just a -1, Troll and Offtopic too.
What is it with you guys? you sound worse than all the republicans that complained about Obama combined.
What does this have to do with the studios suing Omniverse?
A long shot, but here's a try:
If both the charges against President Trump and the charges against Omniverse are true, who would be penalized more?
Tell it to the warden, Trump traitors.
Molesting and consuming little kids and women.
How am I supposed to watch Maine local news if all I get in LA is California local broadcasts? NBC has hundreds of feeds. I would pay to get access to the ones I want, but instead they force me to find someone else willing to distribute it to me. If people are stealing your stuff you first need to ask if your customers can legally buy it.
So the movie companies (Columbia Pictures, Disney, Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Universal, and Warner Bros) are trying to get this tv streaming service (offers more than 70 live TV channels) shutdown? How does that work? Or are they saying they want this company to licence the films that the tv stations show? That wouldn't actually surprise me. What's the bet that before too long they want a flat out tax put on every internet connection to pay them for all this infringement.
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If this one is bundled into the same lawsuit, they'll probably lose.
SiliconDust's service requires:
1. HDHomeRun Hardware.
2. Active cable service.
3. A CableCARD.
4. A login.
5. Internet service.
6. A destination device.
It's basically a replacement for port forwarding - people using it still pay a cable bill. It's tough to use the Aereo case as an argument if users are paying for cable service as a prerequisite for using SD's offering, and if a login is intended to protect against mass sharing.