Livetv.ru "shocked" in the Khoroshevsky court for references to pirated content for 88 million rubles
The Khoroshevsky Court of Moscow has granted the largest lawsuit since the adoption of the anti-piracy law in Russia. The cable channel "Our Football" sued 88 million rubles from the sports Internet resource Livetv.ru (Livetv.sx) for the "illegal distribution" of the records of Russian football matches.
In this case, the crucial point is that LiveTV distributed only links to video broadcasts, which were conducted on third-party sites.
This is how video feed links look on LiveTV.
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The comment by the deputy general director of the TV channel, Ilya Rustamov, that “the TV channel cooperates with Google and has the ability to manage content that is posted on YouTube,” is also puzzling.
Vasily Utkin, editor-in-chief of the sports TV channels NTV-Plus, took the decision of the court with satisfaction: “They pirated the pirate for 88 million,” he wrote on his twitter.
On the progress of the trial, the parties have diametrically different opinions. Ilya Rustamov says that at first the amount of the claim was equal to 37 million rubles, but during the hearings it increased two and a half times. “As time went on, Livetv.ru continued to show us, respectively, we raised the amount of the claim to 92 million rubles. We met several times with Livetv.ru and asked them to remove the content, they behaved themselves brazenly and from some point in general began to ignore us, ”he said in a comment for RBCDaily.
But LiveTV programmer Pavel Nikitin says that “Our football” initially named the amount of the pre-trial payment for 900 million rubles. In the future, they insisted on the requirements to close the site and pay compensation.
It should be noted that to recover money from the owners of the site will not be easy. The point is not only that there is no money (they really aren’t, according to Nictin). But back in November 2013, the owners announced the sale of the project and moved to the .SX domain. Here is what the official statement says about this:
In this case, the crucial point is that LiveTV distributed only links to video broadcasts, which were conducted on third-party sites.
This is how video feed links look on LiveTV.
')
The comment by the deputy general director of the TV channel, Ilya Rustamov, that “the TV channel cooperates with Google and has the ability to manage content that is posted on YouTube,” is also puzzling.
Vasily Utkin, editor-in-chief of the sports TV channels NTV-Plus, took the decision of the court with satisfaction: “They pirated the pirate for 88 million,” he wrote on his twitter.
On the progress of the trial, the parties have diametrically different opinions. Ilya Rustamov says that at first the amount of the claim was equal to 37 million rubles, but during the hearings it increased two and a half times. “As time went on, Livetv.ru continued to show us, respectively, we raised the amount of the claim to 92 million rubles. We met several times with Livetv.ru and asked them to remove the content, they behaved themselves brazenly and from some point in general began to ignore us, ”he said in a comment for RBCDaily.
But LiveTV programmer Pavel Nikitin says that “Our football” initially named the amount of the pre-trial payment for 900 million rubles. In the future, they insisted on the requirements to close the site and pay compensation.
It should be noted that to recover money from the owners of the site will not be easy. The point is not only that there is no money (they really aren’t, according to Nictin). But back in November 2013, the owners announced the sale of the project and moved to the .SX domain. Here is what the official statement says about this:
“Having started work in 2006, LiveTV administration tried to provide site users with easy and free access to information about events in the world of sports that interest them. Over the years, the site has become a huge sports community, sports directory, information archive. This would not have been possible without the active participation and efforts of our users, who actually made the site the way it is now, posting information about sporting events and links to broadcasts and archived videos.
But everything is changing, and now the time has come in Russia when many people do not like this kind of freedom.
The LiveTV project is non-profit and does not provide the necessary funds for endless lawsuits in Russia, even if the right holders make unreasonable lawsuits.
In this connection, we made a decision to sell the project, in which a foreign investor became interested. In the west, such sites receive more reliable legal protection, unlike Russia. ”
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/209308/
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