Anti-Consumer Choice Hollywood Vows to Take Down VidAngel Movie Filtering Service
Popular movie filtering service VidAngel has its back against the legal wall, and Hollywood is the bully that pushed it there. This past summer, several movie studios, including Disney, Warner Bros., and 20th Century Fox, sued VidAngel, claiming the small company was infringing on the studio’s exclusive rights under the Copyright Act and for violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. VidAngel asserts that they are legally operating under the umbrella of the 2005 Family Movie Act, and are acting as the guardian of consumer choice.
A federal judge last week found VidAngel in contempt of court and fined them $10,000. VidAngel CEO Neal Harmon issued a statement after the ruling saying he plans to take the case to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Complicating things is the fact that VidAngel tried to secure licensing agreements and attempted to purchase movies directly from the studios. The studios turned down VidAngel’s money, forcing the company to jump through a series of legal loopholes in order to provide what they like to call a “fancy remote control.” Those loopholes were provided by none other than Congress in the Family Movie Act, and were included in order to thwart Hollywood’s hatred of filtering services:
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