Google Play Removes Perfect Player After “Bogus” Copyright Complaint
Found on Torrentfreak on Friday, 25 October 2019
This week Google removed the popular IPTV software Perfect Player from its Play Store following a hard-to-fathom copyright complaint. A major pay TV provider claimed it was possible to stream pirate content in the app so it must be illegal. However, the app ships with no links to content whatsoever, so anything infringing must've been added at a later stage.
Perfect Player contains no playlists when supplied directly from Google Play, it’s content-neutral.
With the help of a lawyer, the developer is now filing a DMCA counter-notice with Google Play which will require the pay-TV company to either double down or back off. Unless Google chooses to restore Perfect Player in the meantime, of course.
They should also take down browsers, because they can access illegal websites.