Court convicts YouTube download site owner over IP violations

This is the latest development in a years-long legal process, the report says. The Public Prosecutor’s Office of São Paulo filed a complaint against Nader in 2021. The next year, Nader refused an offer to suspend criminal prosecution of the case, which would’ve seen Yout’s proprietor pay a fine of about $400,000, among other concessions.

Nader has long pointed to the 1984 Supreme Court case Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc, as providing the legal precedent under which Yout…