Voltage Pictures and several dozen affiliates and copyright owners have sued Comcast for allegedly refusing to jettison Internet subscribers that repeatedly watch pirated films on illegal BitTorrent sites.In previous years, Voltage stirred up controversy by going directly after individuals for violating copyright.
This suit, filed in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, takes on the nation’s biggest broadband provider.
Copyright holders of The Dallas Buyers Club, I Feel Pretty and other works said Comcast received hundreds of thousands of infringement notices but took “no meaningful action.”Copyright holders have also sued AT&T and Verizon recently for not doing enough to to stop copyright infringement on their networks.At the center of the case is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act from the late 1980s, designed back then to protect a nascent Internet.
It allows platforms to police their own content and says they’re not responsible for what gets posted, the so-called “safe harbor” provision.
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