Russia’s third-largest internet company Rambler wants a record 180 billion rubles ($2.87 billion) in compensation from Amazon’s streaming giant Twitch over illegal streams, the Kommersant business daily reported Monday, the second high-profile action Rambler has taken against a U.S. tech company in less than a week.
Rambler wants to ban Twitch and seek damages over what it says are “pirated broadcasts” of English football matches, Kommersant reported. Rambler bought exclusive rights to air English Premier League (EPL) matches in Russia for a reported 7 million euros earlier this year.
The lawsuit follows raids on popular web hosting software Nginx’s Moscow office after Rambler claimed ownership rights of its open-source code last week. The raids and brief detentions at Nginx, which was sold to a U.S. company this spring, sparked outrage in Russia’s tech world and renewed concerns of resorting to law enforcement in corporate disputes.
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