Judge Rules Against Entertainment Linking Site
A federal judge in Los Angeles last week issued a $371,000 judgment against the Web site Pullmylink.com for the infringement of popular copyrighted movies and television shows owned by Paramount Pictures and Warner Brothers, two member companies of the Motion Picture Association of America. The judgment "affirms yet again that the legal system will not tolerate these Web sites that focus on linking to stolen content,” MPAA Executive Vice President John Malcolm said in a Wednesday press release.
The court found that the operator of Pullmylink engaged in contributory copyright infringement and inducement of copyright infringement by actively searching for, identifying, collecting, organizing, indexing, and posting on the site links to infringing material, which had been posted on various third party sites, allowing Internet users to easily locate and view the content in one place. The decision bans the Web site from further engaging in any activity that would infringe studios’ copyrighted works. There are more than 275 legal sites that provide high quality, digital content online, MPAA said.
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