Rambler Group requires the spread of pirate broadcasts and recover a record 180 billion rubles from the world's largest Twitch streaming service.
Rambler wants to get compensation with Twitch for the pirate broadcasts of the Premier League. This is a record 180 billion rubles
Rambler Group requires the spread of pirate broadcasts and recover a record 180 billion rubles from the world's largest Twitch streaming service.
According to Kommersant, the company counted 36 thousand cases of violation of the rights to show matches of the English Premier League that it owns in Russia. The Moscow City Court will examine the lawsuit of Rambler Internet Holding LLC to Twitch Interactive. Requirements include Twitch blocking in the Russian Federation and recovery of compensation in the amount of 180.345 billion rubles.
The amount of 180 billion was formed as a result of multiplying the number of alleged illegal views on the Twitch ADL broadcasts – 36 thousand – for the maximum amount of compensation of 5 million rubles. Rambler owns exclusive rights to display the Premier League in Russia.
Twitch is owned by Amazon, this is the largest video gestation platform in the world and Russia. According to Mediascope, the monthly audience of resource among Russians over 12 in October 2019 amounted to 4.8 million people. According to Similarweb, in the world for November the site visited 611.4 million times.
Representative of Twitch in court Julianna Tabastaeva He believes that trends are unfair.
“The service only provides users access to the platform, does not place its own content, cannot change the content placed by users, or track possible violations of rights,” said Tabastaeva. She claims that Twitch has taken all the necessary measures to eliminate violations, despite the fact that Rambler did not direct any official notifications, only the screenshots of the pages, and even those without specific dates.