November 11, 2016 me_charity

Movie piracy battle strengthened in Scandinavia

Last year, MaverickEye and NJORD Law Firm announced a joint enforcement program in Finland. Since then, enforcement has started related to more than 30 movies also but also in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Now the effort is being further strengthened.

On October 12 2016, the Danish Producers Association confirmed a cooperation with NJORD Law Firm using MaverickEye data to offer its members a subscription to attack individual up-/downloaders.

As the Danish Producers Association writes on their website, NJORD Law Firm offers the Danish Producers Associations members to sign up for a subscription, where individual letters to Danish users from the IP address, where there has be observed illegal downloading/file sharing of films, TV series, documentaries, etc.

This broad approach will strengthen NJORD Law Firm’s and MaverickEye’s ongoing battle against movie piracy in Denmark, says XX at MaverickEye:

(Quote by person from MaverickEye)

Full service approach at a fixed rate

The first members have already signed up and MaverickEye is now investigating the scope of the infringement for some of the biggest Danish film producing companies.

Meanwhile NJORD is this Autum sending out several thousand letters a week alone in Denmark.

“Based on previous experience, we expect that all subscribers will receive positive payoff, meaning the settlements paid by the receivers of the letters will exceed the costs for our reports and administrative work”, says Partner Jeppe Brogaard Clausen, who initiated the approach at NJORD Law Firm.

After signing up, the subscription for the Danish Film Industry will run for a minimum period of 1½ years (and evaluated in Summer 2019.

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