VPN company sued for “facilitating” movie piracy

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A group of Hollywood studios is suing LiquidVPN, which provides virtual private network services, for facilitating and encouraging movie piracy. The producers claim that the company sells its services using as a dissemination platform access to illegal content streaming services, such as Popcorn Time , and directly cite the fact that the technology is able to prevent users from detecting the phone operators and authorities while doing this.

In the process, the studios ask for compensation of up to $ 150,000 for each title pirated through the service, presenting a list of dozens of films. In addition, the action also requires the blocking of access to irregular sites through VPN , the closing of commonly used ports for downloading through torrents and the banning of users who are adept at such practices, something that must also be transformed into a company policy, with more similar actions being taken in the future.

The center of the issue is in the disclosure pieces used by LiquidVPN, which were attached to the process and indicate that users will not have to worry about legal risks when using the service. The focus is on customers from the United States and the United Kingdom, who, according to the texts attached to the file, could “enjoy all that Popcorn Time has to offer”, but “without regard to operator blocks, lawsuits , threats and imprisonment for broadcasting their favorite films and series ”.

LiquidVPN was operated by a company called SMR Hosting, which is triggered by the lawsuit as well as its direct owner, the American David Cox. A second lawsuit, with the same requests, was also opened against 1701 Management, a Puerto Rico company that acquired virtual private network services in 2018. In addition, 100 users identified by IP addresses are also cited in the lawsuits as regular customers of irregular access to content promoted by the technology.

The authors of the lawsuit identify themselves as a group, but include producers such as Voltage Pictures and Millenium Funding, responsible for films such as Fury on the High Seas , The Agent of the Future , Chasing Abbott and Sexy by Accident . It is also not the first lawsuit with piracy charges brought by them, which have also legally launched sharing sites like YTS and The Pirate Bay and the irregular streaming platform Popcorn Time.

Strangely, not only are sites with irregular content cited, but the request also involves preventing US users from using international services. The blocking list also includes the Russian social network VK and Amazon stores in countries such as the United Kingdom and Germany.

Also, those responsible for the action claim to have sent multiple notifications and alerts to those responsible for LiquidVPN before starting legal proceedings. As there was no response or attitudes, while advertising continued to highlight access to irregular content, the companies were sued.

Those responsible for LiquidVPN, current and previous, have not officially commented on the process. According to information from the TorrentFreak website, the service's website went down for a few hours in the past week and currently continues to promote services aimed at torrents or Popcorn Time, but without direct mention of evasion of tracking by the authorities or operators, as well as posters and movie images that could be accessed using the technology.

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