RIGHTSCORP, INC. (OTCMKTS:RIHT) Files An 8-K Other Events
Item 8.01 Other Events.
On April 17, 2017, the United States District Court for the
Southern District of New York dismissed the case Windstream
Services, LLC v. BMG Rights Management (US) LLC Rightscorp, Inc.
on a motion by Defendants. In its order granting the motion to
dismiss, the Court rejected Windstream Services, LLCs attempt to
obtain a declaratory judgment and ruled that even conduit
internet service providers (ISPs) are subject to the provisions
of Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Section 512(i) such
that, to qualify for the DMCA safe harbor protection against
claims of copyright infringement, such ISPs must implement
conforming repeat infringer policies. Rightscorp, Inc. (the
Company) believes this ruling validates the Companys position
that ISPs have responsibilities to reign in piracy on their
networks.
About RIGHTSCORP, INC. (OTCMKTS:RIHT)
Rightscorp, Inc. is a technology company, which has a method for collecting payments from illegal downloaders of copyrighted content through notifications sent to their Internet service providers (ISPs). The Company offers and sells a service to copyright owners under which copyright owners retain it to identify infringements and collect settlement payments from Internet users that have infringed on their copyrights. After it has received an order from a client, its software monitors the global peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing networks to detect illegally distributed digital media. The technology sends automated notices of the infringing activity to ISPs and the ISP forwards these notices. The notice to ISPs and settlement offers identify the date, time, title of copyrighted intellectual property and other specific technology identifiers to confirm the infringement by the ISPs customer. Infringers accepting its settlement offers then remit payment to it for the copyright infringement. RIGHTSCORP, INC. (OTCMKTS:RIHT) Recent Trading Information
RIGHTSCORP, INC. (OTCMKTS:RIHT) closed its last trading session down -0.0018 at 0.0342 with 390,400 shares trading hands.
