Bell follows Videotron in suing alleged unauthorized hotel television retransmitters

By Ahmad Hathout OTTAWA – Bell Media on Friday filed a lawsuit against hotel channel retransmitters it alleges are illegally restreaming its content. The alleged restreamers – Technologies Konek inc., Coopérative de câblodistribution Hill Valley, and Libeo – are the same ones that Videotron targeted since February 2021 and won a $500,000 judgment against in May. Bell is alleging Friday that as early as 2018, the trio have been “developing, advertising and offering various technological services for hotels, including television services which provide unauthorized access to some of the Bell Media Stations, including the CTV, Noovo, and RDS stations and...