Argentina. The National Communications Commission, CNC, ordered all internet providers in Argentina to block three television series that were broadcast through the web portal Cuevana, in compliance with a lawsuit instituted by Turner Productions.
The programs that motivated the lawsuit, ruled since November by a judge and only executed this month, were Bric, 26 people to save the world and Falling Skies. Two of these are Argentine productions made by Turner, Warner's subsidiary in that country.
Although this decision made it rumored that they were going for the closure of the portal, the director of the CNC, Ceferino Namuncurá, denied these versions and clarified that the judicial decision only covers these programs.
But this is not the only judicial problem Cuevana faced last year. He was also sued by the Argentine Union of Video Editors and the production company HBO. The result of these lawsuits was the blocking of the portal by two internet providers.
Cuevana currently has 12 million monthly users, mostly in Latin America, and has an approximate catalog of 3,000 films and 250,000 series.
This situation comes just as the U.S. Congress is discussing the anti-piracy law on the Internet known as Sopa, which led in recent days to a blackout of several Websites, which Cuevana joined.
