Millet box piracy situation finally reversed

Video site sued millet box Pirates of the situation finally reversed. The reporter learned from the Haidian court on Friday that it sued the millet box boxers for winning ten film and television works such as "Harem Zhen Huan Chuan" and "Lovelorn Love 33 Days." Among the above cases, 70% of the works were judged by the Haidian Court as Millet box will bear joint and several liability. It is understood that this is the first case of successful prosecution of pirate cases in Xiaomi; the successful case means that the future in the box terminal, even if the content provider for infringement, the terminal manufacturers will also be responsible. Millet and music in the television box, Internet TV is a positive competitor, the millet was sentenced to infringement, so Millet's content on the short board exposed no doubt.

According to the relevant materials of Haidian court, among the ten works in which LeTV accused Xiaomi Box of infringing its right to broadcast information, "Jinling 13", "I am a special soldier", "benevolent medical practitioner", "mother-in-law meets mother" "Man help", "hawthorn love", "Palace Lock heart jade" seven films, the court ruled that millet companies lose 150,000 yuan loss of music net.

In fact, there have been many companies including Youku sued millet box Pirates of the broadcast, but Xiaomi claims that it is only hardware manufacturers and vendors, not content providers, so there is no violation, making the case was lost Or reconciliation hall.

Why Haidian Court can break the previous decision of other cases to determine the box must bear tort liability Xiaoyi court related judgments show that although Xiaomi companies only provide hardware and technical services, but to provide massive genuine as the main promotional content, the use of the Internet TV platform to promote their own products and services, and through its closed-end system for the platform to provide fee-based services, so Xiaomi should increase liability for damages to expand the joint and several liability. At the same time, Xiaomi Co. took the administrative requirement of SARFT as an excuse and failed to take the necessary measures against the apparent infringement. Such a practice is contrary to the original intention of SARFT in issuing administrative rules and requirements.

Case or become a benchmark

Although the amount of compensation in this case is not large, the significance of the benchmark in the case is far greater than the economic significance. In response, the plaintiff's senior lawyer, Beijing Dongwei Law Firm Wu Zi-fang, argues that the case broke through the original verdict and ruled that the company is jointly and severally liable for the case, which means that the court has ruled that both the terminal manufacturer and the content provider have infringement , That is to say, all companies in the future can not ignore the act of pirating content providers under the pretext of being their own terminal manufacturer.

Relevant experts in the smart TV industry think that this judgment has the vane significance for the future development of the TV box and the Internet TV so that some boxes or TV manufacturers that collaborate or cooperate with the platform clearly define the red line of infringement and are in favor of the Internet The healthy development of television industry.

Millet exposed content weakness

The verdict, although the amount of compensation is not large. But Xiaomi such a lack of film and television video content company, put forward a very serious problem. If there is no content support for the millet box and TV, it will change back to traditional TV and compete positively with companies such as MTV Super TV which have extremely rich film content.

Become no market competitiveness. This is the weakness of millet company where film and television copyright and ecological construction can not be built overnight, leaving the market a millet box, millet television less and less time and space. Although millet invested thunder, but thunder is not rich in copyright accumulation, but often receive piracy. Today's video site has basically established the pattern of the millet, if there is no front-line video site content support, it is difficult to make a difference in the box and television. This is also the millet television and boxes in the market reaction dull important reason.

Analysis of the industry, millet millet 4K TV released when specifically showing a stylish 4K pictorial television pictorial, which was ridiculed by the IT industry to become "a TV to see the newspaper," the passage. Since then, millet can also see the dilemma in the video content.