A California jury Monday ordered the Provo-based VidAngel to pay $62.4 million to four Hollywood studios, for violating the studios’ copyrights by streaming filtered versions of their movies into customers’ homes.
U.S. District Court Judge André Birotte Jr. granted summary judgment against VidAngel in March, ruling that the studios had proved that VidAngel violated the studios’ copyrights and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which includes protection for security software to keep the movies from being pirated.
At the time, Birotte rejected VidAngel’s argument that its filtered streaming service was protected by the Family Movie Act, passed in Congress in 2005.