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Rambler Allegedly Suing Twitch For £2.1 billion

December 17, 2019

Russian newspaper Kommersant states that Rambler believes their rights to showing English Premier League fixtures were breached by Twitch 36,000 times during the first three months of this season.

It is now suing the streaming company for £2.1 billion, with Moscow’s City Court ready to listen to the case on the 20th of December.

Rambler’s Mikhail Gershkovich, said in a statement: “Our suit against Twitch is to defend our exclusive rights to broadcast English Premier League matches and we will continue to actively combat pirate broadcasts.”

“We’re currently holding talks with Twitch to sign a settlement agreement. The service has given us tools to combat pirate broadcasts and we are now only talking about compensation for damages between August and November.”

Twitch’s lawyer, Julianna Tabastaeva, said to Kommersant that the company took “all necessary measures to eliminate the violations, despite not receiving any official notification from Rambler,” and “only provides users with access to the platform and is unable to change the content posted by users, or track possible violations”.

 

 

 

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