LOS ANGELES – A US court in California on Monday issued a modification judgment, granting Aylo Premium a permanent injunction against three people known as operators of Goodporn and several mirror sites, which host full, streamable versions of the company’s content .
As XBIZ reported, in February Judge Mark C. Scarsi awarded Aylo Premium $2,157,000, ruling that Amrit Kumar, Lizette Lundberg and Emilie Brunn have no rights to the content owned by Aylo Premium, which was released at the beginning of the lawsuit was known as MG Premium.
Monday’s order expands the previous ruling to include an order for third-party providers to block U.S. access to the infringing sites at the domain level.
Unlike typical intellectual property rights infringement orders, which target only defendants, Judge Scarsi’s blocking order is permanent and extends to third-party providers such as Cloudflare, Google and domain registrars. ISPs, search engines and other intermediaries were ordered to take action to block access not only to the content, but to the domains themselves.
Judge Scarsi wrote: “Defendants, their agents, servants, officers, directors, employees, attorneys, secretaries, representatives, successors and assigns and parent and subsidiary companies or other related entities, and any person or entity acting in concert or in participation with any of them, or under their direction or control, including Internet search engines, web hosting and Internet service providers, domain name registrars, domain name registries and other service or software providers, are ordered,
within five business days of service of judgment or make reasonable efforts to attempt to block US users’ access to the Goodporn Websites by blocking access to all domains, subdomains, URLs and/or IP addresses or try to block. whose sole or primary purpose is to facilitate access to the Goodporn Websites.”
“We take any infringement of our content and brands seriously and remain committed to protecting our intellectual property rights,” an Aylo representative told XBIZ. “We believe this change in judgment will help deter piracy and ensure consumers can find our content through legitimate channels.”
Jason Tucker of Battleship Stance, who consulted on the case for Aylo, told XBIZ in February that the Kumar case stands out to him as one of the most extraordinary he has ever been involved in.
“The defendant is blatantly showing entire films without proper licensing and ignoring takedown requests,” Tucker said. “In response to legal action, Amrit Kumar made the bold claim to own Aylo Premium’s entire library of past and future films and images, citing a ridiculous ‘agreement’ as justification.”
The judge previously ruled that the document Kumar submitted to justify his refusal to stop streaming Aylo’s content “does not contain any evidence of reliability or authenticity.”
Tucker confirmed that mirror sites would go offline from Wednesday.