Linking to movies leads to $4 million in fines

Two more sites have been fined some $4 million for enabling copyright infringement by linking to illegal movies and TV shows. ars technica reports.

"The MPAA hails the judgments as a victory, even if the sites weren't hosting the copyrighted material themselves.

"Even though ShowStash and Cinematube didn't host any of these files, both were found guilty of contributory copyright infringement, according to the judges' opinions, because they searched for, identified, collected, and indexed links to illegal copies of movies and TV shows.

Aside from monetary damages, both sites are now prohibited from engaging in further activity that would infringe upon the studios' work. "

emily | 1:13 PM | Copypright Issues |
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