Cable / Telecom News

PIRACY: Broadcasters go for Gold


OTTAWA – The Federal Court of Canada has granted Bell Media, Groupe TVA, and Rogers Media an interim injunction against GoldTV.biz and GoldTV.ca, ordering GoldTV to disable its IPTV services pending a final decision on what is gearing up to be a test case for the big broadcasters efforts to require all Internet service providers (ISPs) to block unlicenced web sites they say are pirating their content.In addition, the injunction forbids the as yet unknown individuals or entities operating the services, called John Doe 1 and John Doe 2 in the documents filed with the court, from transferring "access, control...