Court Bans DoodStream's Owners & Associates From Running The SiteAndy Maxwell, 08 Jun 10:52 AM In March 2024, the major Hollywood studios, Netflix,
 | In March 2024, the major Hollywood studios, Netflix, Amazon, and Apple, teamed up in a lawsuit against popular cyberlocker platform DoodStream, previously labeled the leading global piracy threat. The U.S. entertainment companies had been filing takedown notices to prevent their copyright works being illegally shared among DoodStream's tens of millions of users, and beyond that, many millions more. They claim the takedown notices were ineffective due to a system at DoodStream that generated replacement links to ensure content remained available. Since DoodStream is run from India, the site's owners were sued in the Delhi High Court. In March, an injunction compelled the site to purge itself of all links to the plaintiffs' content inside 24 hours. As detailed in part one of this article published yesterday, DoodStream didn't remove the content in the allocated period and certainly didn't shut down. Instead, it complained that the links to be removed were supplied in an inconvenient f...Read More | The USTR's 'notorious markets' report is one of the more powerful tools available to rightsholders aiming to tackle infringement orchestrated from overseas. When Hollywood first submitted cyberlocker platform DoodStream for consideration in 2022, its framing was not dissimilar to that used to shape perceptions of Megaupload. Front and center, a cash incentive scheme that rewards DoodStream's users based on the popularity of 'their' videos. Based on broadly the same copyright infringement-related allegations, a Paris court ordered French ISPs to block DoodStream in 2023. Late last year, the MPA's Global General Counsel, Karyn Temple, personally informed a House Judiciary Subcommittee of the threat posed by DoodStream. That wasn't intended to be taken lightly. Major Hollywood Studios, Netflix, Amazon, and Apple, Sue DoodStream In March this year, Hollywood's movie and TV show giants filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against India-based DoodStream at the Delhi High Court A total...Read More |
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