PLEDIS Leisure has launched an official replace relating to its ongoing authorized efforts to guard TWS from malicious assaults on-line.
On September 19, the company introduced that it had filed legal complaints and pursued civil litigation towards a number of accounts liable for repeatedly posting insulting, defamatory, and mocking content material concentrating on TWS members on X (previously Twitter). To additional determine the people behind these accounts, PLEDIS can also be taking extra authorized steps, together with info disclosure requests with abroad courts.
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Lately, there was a speedy and severe improve in malicious posts concentrating on TWS with defamation, insults, and ill-intentioned criticism. In response, we’re taking authorized motion based mostly on proof gathered from our inner monitoring and fan studies. Under is the abstract of our key actions:
We’ve got collected intensive proof of the indiscriminate distribution of malicious posts and feedback that infringe upon the rights of our artists, together with these concentrating on home communities (TheQoo, DC Inside, Instiz, Weverse, Naver, Daum, Nate, Ilgan Finest, FMKorea, and so forth.), music websites (Melon, Bugs Music, Genie Music, and so forth.), and worldwide social media channels (X, Instagram, YouTube, and so forth.). Based mostly on this proof, now we have filed legal complaints with the investigative authorities.
Notably, now we have initiated authorized motion, together with civil litigation, towards a number of accounts which have repeatedly posted severely insulting, defamatory, and mocking posts concentrating on particular members on the “X” platform. Moreover, to verify the identities of the account holders and take follow-up measures, we’re presently continuing with authorized procedures, together with info disclosure requests, with abroad courts, together with these in america.
We want to stress as soon as once more that publicly insulting artists with the intent to defame or slander their status and violate their persona rights not solely causes extreme hurt to the artists however can also be an unlawful act punishable beneath the legislation. We is not going to provide any settlement or leniency for these rights infringements, and we’ll maintain these accountable accountable by way of thorough proof assortment and authorized proceedings, regardless of how lengthy it takes.
Your curiosity and studies are of nice assist in our authorized response. Do you have to encounter malicious posts associated to our artists, please report them by way of the “HYBE Artist Rights Violation Report Website.”
To make sure that fan studies are successfully utilized in authorized actions, we want to present some tips for reporting. Please be sure that URLs, usernames, publish content material, and the date of the screenshot are clearly seen in your submission, as this info is vital for authorized proceedings.
To this finish, please submit full-screen screenshots from a PC or full-page print recordsdata (PDF) with all info clearly seen, reasonably than submitting cell screenshots if attainable, as this may drastically help within the authorized proceedings.
We’re all the time grateful for the love and dedication proven by the followers of TWS. We are going to proceed to work to make sure that the rights of our artists are totally protected.
Thanks.
