Google Portugal has been ordered by the Lisbon Intellectual Property Court to block access to a website that illegally shares content such as films and series – but a company source has told Lusa that the company will appeal the decision. The judgement stems from an injunction filed by GEDIPE – the Association for the Collective Management of Copyright of Film and Audiovisual Producers – against Google Portugal, for allowing the existence of the eztv online page, and more than 500 associated subdomains, where entertainment and information content is illegally shared. According to the court ruling, Google Portugal was ordered to block the possibility of its customers connecting to the domain and subdomains of that site, and/ or pay a fine of €1,000 for each day “in which there is non-compliance with the decision handed down, after the final judgement, until the effective blocking ordered”.
