A website operator on the YouTube channel uploaded videos explaining how to access to “Sdarot” website, where links are uploaded for illegal direct viewing of the works, in which he instructed the public on how to circumvent the instructions of the blocking orders issued by the courts in Israel and the USA regarding the copyright infringing website.
The Court accepted the claim for indirect copyright infringement. Israeli law stipulates that copyright breach is, inter alia, turning a work available to the public without permission from the rights holder while taking an action that will make it easier for the public to access the infringing work with the intention of making a profit. Here, publishing the explanation videos actively helped the site owners to continue to circumvent the cease and desist orders, causing the breach of copyrights and resulted in the intensification of the damage caused to the rights holders with the intention of profit in the future.