![]() “Additionally, without a preliminary injunction, Defendants may transfer funds from PayPal to a provider beyond the Court’s jurisdictional reach, thereby continuing the ongoing infringements Plaintiffs allege.”Īlston granted the TRO as to Evolve for the same reasons. A multi-platform, free software BitTorrent client that includes an integrated media player. “The fact that Popcorn Time offers freely available, infringing copies of Plaintiffs’ copyrighted works suggests that the application is undermining the legitimate market in which consumers may pay to access those same works,” writes Alston. Subreddit for the popular torrent streaming program, Popcorn Time. So far, none of the defendants have responded to the suit in court.Īlston notes that courts don’t award preliminary injunctions lightly, but in this case he found the plaintiffs are likely to succeed on the merits of their claims and are likely to suffer irreparable harm absent the relief. ![]() The plaintiffs then asked for an order that would freeze the defendants’ accounts at Tennessee-based Evolve Bank & Trust. froze the assets of their PayPal accounts, enjoined PayPal from allowing those funds to be transferred and allowed limited discovery directed to third parties PayPal, GitHub and Cloudflare.
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