The internet television service Molotov and the M6 group reached an agreement on Friday to broadcast the channels M6, W9, 6Ter and Gulli, after several years of fruitless discussions and a lawsuit, the platform announced in a statement.
"Molotov will distribute the unencrypted channels of the M6 Group as part of its paid offers," said the service, specifying that "replays, bonuses and the recording function in the cloud" will also be offered to subscribers in early 2022.
This agreement comes after years of negotiations between the two parties and the conviction of Molotov on December 2 by the Paris court.
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Sentenced to pay 7 million euros
The site, which for more than three years transmitted the channels of the M6 group without its authorization, had then been summoned by the justice to pay it more than 7 million euros in particular "for the infringement of the neighboring rights of the company of audiovisual communication ”and to stop broadcasting the channels.
Molotov offers both paid and free offers to its users and will continue to distribute other free-to-air DTT channels free of charge, the group said.
Launched in 2016 by Jean-David Blanc (creator of AlloCiné), Jean-Marc Denoual (former executive of TF1) and Pierre Lescure (former boss of Canal +), the French streaming service claims more than 17 million users in addition to five years of existence.
The platform was acquired in November for 164.3 million euros by FuboTV, an American internet television service focused on sports.
