Cable giants step up piracy battle by interrogating Montreal software developer and searching his home

Cable giants step up piracy battle by interrogating Montreal software developer and searching his home

7 years ago
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/tvaddons-piracy-rogers-bell-videotron-court-1.4231340

Canadian cable companies have ratcheted up their war on piracy by launching a new legal battle. The effort has already seen Bell, Rogers and Quebecor's Videotron search a Montreal software developer's home and interrogate him for more than nine hours.

"The whole experience was horrifying," says Adam Lackman, founder of TVAddons and defendant in a copyright infringement lawsuit launched by the television giants. "It felt like the kind of thing you would have expected to have happened in the Soviet Union."

Telecoms and content creators Bell, Rogers and Videotron began their piracy battle last year by filing a lawsuit against Canadian dealers who sell "free TV" Android boxes — devices that can be used to stream pirated content.

Anton Piller lawsuits are way over-used in Canada. I have no idea why judges authorize so many of them.