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Per the settlement, Dragon Media is to shut down the Dragon Box system entirely, including services related to BlendTV and another one called My TV Hub within five days of the judgment and permanent injunction filed Monday. The service streamed out more than 65 US channels, started at $39.95 per month, and was operated by a distribution partner called uMedialink LLC. According to TorrentFreak, a news site focused on file-sharing and privacy and copyright issues, Dragon Box, in the face of ACE's legal pressure, tweaked its business model last fall by briefly introducing a service called Blend TV. Prior to facing legal action, Carlsbad, Calif.-based Dragon Box was selling its device for $350 and, at one point, claimed to have about 250,000 customers. Don't miss this exclusive opportunity to network with and learn from industry experts - cable operators and communications service providers get in free! The sellers of Dragon Box, a streaming device allegedly used for pirating movies and TV shows. Get your strategic roadmap to the technology trends and business cases shaping the cable industry! Join us for the Cable Next-Gen Technologies & Strategies event in Denver on March 12-14. (See Netflix-Backed ACE Sinks Another Video Piracy Threat. But studios, programmers and pay-TV operators have been deeply concerned about add-ons that scrape the Internet for illegal sources of copyrighted content and assemble them into an easy-to-navigate interface on a TV-connected streaming device.ĪCE has also been using a letter campaign to target and threaten individuals believed to be supplying repositories and Kodi add-ons that can deliver ill-gotten movies and other premium content.
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)īefore ACE started to crack down, Dragon Media was selling its Dragon Box for $350. (See TickBox to Pay $25M to Settle Video Piracy Lawsuit. Last fall, the studio-backed group scored a similar settlement with TickBox, another company accused of selling streaming devices with Kodi add-ons that connected users to copyrighted content illegally. Two individual defendants associated with Dragon Media - Paul Christoforo and Jeff Williams - were identified in the court documents. According to the settlement filed in the US District Court for the Central District of California, Western Division, Dragon Media/Dragon Box was ordered to pay a $14.5 million judgement for copyright infringement and will cease operating any streaming TV businesses. in January 2018, alleging that the makers of Dragon Box enabled "mass theft" and the illegal distribution of copyrighted content. Dragon Media, the coalition claims, sold "fully-loaded" Kodi streaming boxes under the Dragon Box brand that enable consumers to purchase a lineup of live TV channels on the cheap illegally and access individual TV shows and movies, including some titles still in theaters, for free.ĪCE filed the suit against Dragon Media Inc.
At this time, the parties are in the process of preparing a settlement agreement and intend to file the documents related to the final disposition of the case within the next few days.Chalk up another victory for the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), a legal coalition backed by several major studios, programmers and other premium content players, including Netflix, Disney, CBS, Hulu, Amazon and NBCU.ĪCE announced this week that it has forced a settlement and subsequent shutdown of the makers of the Dragon Box. Faust “Defendants respectfully notify the Court that the parties have agreed in principle to settle the above-entitled case. ACE has been actively targeting pirate streaming platforms and hardware vendors in recent times and has been successful at shutting down a number of websites and halted the sales of a number of piracy-enabled Kodi-boxes in the past two years.Īccording to attorney Matthew J. ACE will be revealing more details about the settlement in the near future. You can also find other Electronic Retailing on MapQuest. Prior to the settlement, the Kodi streaming box company argued that it was legal to sell the boxes, but the court disagreed. Get directions, reviews and information for Digixstream Shop Dragon Box XBMC Kodi in Temecula, CA. TorrentFreak reports as per the settlement’s terms, Dragon Box will have to halt all sales of its streaming devices effective immediately. A number of Hollywood studios, Amazon and Netflix sued Dragon Box under the ACE banner.
Kodi add-on platform faced serious charges due to its copyright infringing activity and while it had managed to get into a settlement with filmmakers of “Once Upon a Time in Venice” and “Mechanic: Resurrection,” other parties were not very keen on any settlements.
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