Very quickly it became clear there would be an appeal, with plaintiffs represented by anti-piracy outfit RightsAlliance complaining that their 10m krona ($1.25m) claim for damages over the unlawful distribution of local movie Johan Falk: Kodnamn: Lisa had been ruled out by the Court.<\/p>\n
With the appeal hearing now just a couple of weeks away, Swedish outlet\u00a0Breakit<\/a>\u00a0is reporting that media giant\u00a0Bonnier Broadcasting<\/a>\u00a0has launched an action of its own against the now 27-year-old former operator of Swefilmer.<\/p>\n According to the publication, Bonnier\u2019s pay-TV company\u00a0C More<\/a>, which distributes for Fox, MGM, Paramount, Universal, Sony and Warner, is set to demand around 24m krona ($3.01m) via anti-piracy outfit RightsAlliance.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is about organized crime and grossly criminal individuals who earned huge sums on our and others\u2019 content. We want to take every opportunity to take advantage of our rights,\u201d says Johan Gustafsson, Head of Corporate Communications at Bonnier Broadcasting.<\/p>\n C More reportedly filed its lawsuit at the Stockholm District Court on January 30, 2018. At its core are four local movies said to have been uploaded and made available via Swefilmer.<\/p>\n \u201cC More would probably never even have granted a license to [the operator] to make or allow others to make the films available to the public in a similar way as [the operator] did, but if that had happened, the fee would not be less than 5,000,000 krona ($628,350) per film or a total of 20,000,000 krona ($2,513,400),\u201d C More\u2019s claim reads.<\/p>\n Speaking with Breakit, lawyer Ansgar Firsching said he couldn\u2019t say much about C More\u2019s claims against his client.<\/p>\n \u201cI am very surprised that two weeks before the main hearing [C More] comes in with this requirement. If you open another front, we have two trials that are partly about the same thing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Firsching said he couldn\u2019t elaborate at this stage but expects his client to deny the claim for damages. C More sees things differently.<\/p>\n \u201cMany people live under the illusion that sites like Swefilmer are driven by idealistic teens in their parents\u2019 basements, which is completely wrong. This is about organized crime where our content is used to generate millions and millions in revenue,\u201d the company notes.<\/p>\n The appeal in the main case is set to go ahead February 20th.<\/p>\n Source: \u00a0![\"TorrentFreak\"](\"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/torrentfreak.png\")
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