Maverickeye comes from two words: maverick, which means “unorthodox or independent-minded” and eye. Combined, the whole name refers to the company's unconventional way of detecting
copyright violators.
Services
Maverickeye provides
surveillance of
intellectual property within various
peer-to-peer (P2P) networks such as
BitTorrent and
eMule. It makes use of hardware infrastructure to identify, analyse, archive, and document the illegal distribution of copyrighted materials. Maverickeye generates analytical, statistical, and graphical reports for P2P downloads of Internet users. They also offer
takedown services requesting removal of unlicensed content from
search engines and torrent sites. This service includes an analysis and
trademark and
pictureinfringement detection.
Takedown process
Identify the sites that contain infringed content.
In September 2015, one of Maverickeye's lawyers filed a lawsuit against 16 infringers using Maverickeye's data to prove that infringers collaborated over Popcorn Time.
In Glacier Films v. Doe 3:15-cv-02016, the same partner lawyer was able to “see through dynamic IP addresses”. (Source:
Rational Rights)[citation needed]
In total, Maverickeye was able to deliver data for over 200 federal cases and never lost one case.
United Kingdom
The company reached out to
BAFTA,
UK Film Council, Lord Lucas, Lord Clement-Jones, FACT and many others to explain and talk about the reduction of Internet copyright infringement by 30% in Germany. However, the idea of making the subscriber liable for infringements which has been adapted in other jurisdictions was met by disapproval by all of the politicians and government bodies who insisted that the DEA would solve all the problems.
After three years, Maverickeye finally received their first
court order in the beginning of 2015, and sent out the first batch of letters in July 2015.
Dallas Buyers Club (DBC) also demanded fines for legal damages from Popcorn Time users in Denmark at the end of 2014. In summer this year, DBC's copyright owner filed mass lawsuits against those who have allegedly downloaded the movie through
BitTorrent.