VidAngel
Video streaming service
Follow VidAngel on Notably News to receive short updates to your email — rarely!
| 2022 | VidAngel relaunched with a new ad campaign developed by Harmon Brothers. Under CEO Bill Aho's leadership, the company's subscriber base doubled within the first year |
| 2022 | VidAngel relaunched under new ownership, continuing its streaming service with content filtering capabilities. |
| 2021 | VidAngel was split into two separate companies: VidAngel Entertainment (filtering business) and Angel Studios (crowdfunded content platform). Bill Aho, former CEO of ClearPlay, became the new CEO of VidAngel |
| 2020 | VidAngel reached a settlement with the four studios, agreeing to pay $9.9 million and emerging from bankruptcy. The settlement prohibited VidAngel from streaming content from the four studios that sued it. |
| 2019 | A Los Angeles jury ordered VidAngel to pay over $62 million in damages to the studios involved in the lawsuit. |
| June 2019 | A jury ordered VidAngel to pay $62 million in damages to the four Hollywood studios for copyright infringement. |
| August 7 2018 | U.S. District Court Judge David Nuffer dismissed VidAngel's lawsuit after the company reportedly decided to drop the case. |
| October 2017 | VidAngel filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as a legal strategy to protect the company against ongoing lawsuits and reorganize its business, allowing the company to continue operations while pausing legal proceedings. |
| September 2017 | VidAngel filed a lawsuit in a Utah federal court against studio affiliates seeking a declaratory judgment that its new streaming model is legal. |
| August 24 2017 | The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the injunction against VidAngel, citing that the Family Movie Act does not defend violation of copyright protection measures. |
| August 2 2017 | Judge Birotte rejected VidAngel's request for appeal or clarification of the injunction. |
| June 2017 | VidAngel announced a new streaming service for $9.99 per month to filter content from Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and HBO after the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denied their request to lift an injunction. Netflix explicitly stated they did not endorse or approve VidAngel's technology. |
| January 2017 | VidAngel was found in contempt of court for continuing to add titles in violation of the court's order and was fined $10,231.20 in legal costs. |
| 2016 | VidAngel was sued by major Hollywood studios for its original content filtering method, which involved decrypting DVDs and Blu-rays, allegedly violating copyright protections. |
| December 30 2016 | VidAngel announced they would stop streaming as per the court's order. |
| December 12 2016 | Judge Andre Birotte Jr. granted Disney's motion for a preliminary injunction, ruling that VidAngel violated copyright laws by circumventing DVD protection and streaming content without proper licensing. |
| November 14 2016 | Preliminary hearing for the lawsuit was held, with VidAngel filing a counterclaim alleging violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. |
| June 12 2016 | Production companies including Disney, Lucasfilm, 20th Century Fox, and Warner Bros. filed a federal lawsuit against VidAngel for copyright infringement, accusing them of circumventing DVD copyright protection and unauthorized video streaming. |
| 2014 | VidAngel was launched by the Harmon Brothers in Utah, offering a video streaming service that allows users to filter out objectionable content from movies and TV shows. |
This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia articles VidAngel & Disney v. VidAngel, which are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.