IBCAP-Coordinated Lawsuit Results in $3 Million Settlement

DENVER, Feb. 05, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — On February 2, 2024, IBCAP member DISH Network L.L.C. received a settlement payment of $3,000,000, resolving its lawsuit against Datacamp Limited, a U.K.-based company providing global content delivery network (CDN) services under the name CDN77 and dedicated servers and network services under the name Datapacket. The IBCAP-coordinated lawsuit, filed in February 2022 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, asserted claims against Datacamp for contributory and vicarious copyright infringement for allowing continued use of the Datacamp services by 11 different pirate services.

The complaint alleged that Datacamp received nearly 400 notices of infringement from IBCAP but did little to stop the pirate services…