Nagra wins the legal battle against China Gotech accused of piracy

Basándose en la sentencia de un tribunal de Texas, IBC vetó la presencia de la empresa Zhuhai Gotech Intelligent Technology (Gotech) como expositor en la feria.

Nogra, company of the Kudelski Group, announced today that the Federal Court for the Southern District of Texas, United States, has failed in favor of Nagravision in its demand of 101 million dollars against the Chinese company Zhuhai Gotech Intelligent Technology and two companies linked to it. Nagra filed demand claiming that Gotech technologies and services are designed and manufactured to avoid intellectual property, mainly content protection technologies. The identification and forensic investigation of the defendants and their pirate activities were carried out by Kudelski Security and the Nacra content protection services.

In the wide action, Nagra argued that Zhuhai Gotech Intelligent Technology, Gotech International Technology and Globalsat Technology International manufactured and distributed unauthorized decoders of several brands, including Globalsat, Azameria, Nazabox, CaptiveWorks and Limesat and operated in the United States as Iks Sharing - Method of sharing of conditional access keys) thus violating the law of the copyright of the Digital Millennium (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) and the Federal Communications Law (Federal Communications Act). The Court Judge of the United States District Kenneth M. Hoyt decided in favor of Nagra, ensuring in his final ruling that "the court accepted as certain allegations ... well presented in the amended lawsuit of Nagra."

Maurice Van Riek, senior vice president and director of Content Security and Property of Nagra, says that “we have demonstrated in our security laboratories that Gotech has impacted all conditional access systems (CAS - Conditional Access System) and is also providing a solution for illegal content exchange, affecting payment television operators everywhere. We are aware that the damage caused by the damage caused by the crime of Gotech He was recognized by the judge and the court ordered Gotech to stop damaging our industry with his products and practices. ”

In addition to determining the payment of damages, Judge Hoyt also ordered the Gotech to stop the manufacture and sale of any equipment or offer any service that can be used for piracy.

Kudelski Security has identified Gotech's piracy activities through continuous monitoring of global piracy activities from its base of operations in Switzerland and Brazil. After the identification of these activities, the antipiratía experts carried out a forensic investigation to gather proof of charge. The Court granted Nagra 101,851,800, due to the capacity of the security company to identify and test the exact number of users (more than half a million) connected to the Gotech illegal services that were the objects of the case. Kudelski Security estimates now that they were, in fact, more than three million end users connected to several Gotech servers.

In addition to ordering the payment of damages, Judge Hoyt also ordered Gotech to stop the manufacture and sale of any equipment or services that could be used for piracy. The judge also order the intermediaries or contractors whose services allow Gotech to promote piracy must stop doing so, and that the ownership of the Main Site of Gotech was transferred to Nagra. In relation to these facts, the organizers of IBC 2016 in Amsterdam prohibited Gotech from exposing in this edition.