After five years and new methods to block content pirates, broadcasters end legal action against GoldTV

By Ahmad Hathout After five years of injunctions against a host of unlicensed content, Canada’s major broadcasters earlier this week filed a notice to the Federal Court ending their legal action against GoldTV – a case that spawned a new era of court authority over content pirates. The broadcasters first got an interlocutory injunction against the website in the summer of 2019, which meant GoldTV was ordered by the court to stop broadcasting the unlicensed content of the major broadcasters – in this case, Rogers, Bell, Groupe TVA. That order was renewed in December 2022 for a period of two...