VidAngel, the company that offered its users "clean" versions of existing movies, said today that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. CEO Neal Harmon announced the move, saying, “It's an important step to protect our company — as well as its creditors, investors, and customers — from the plaintiffs'…

UPDATED with VidAngel reaction: The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals today upheld a lower court ruling that stopped movie-filtering service VidAngel from operating. The decision all but brings to an end the legal fight waged by Disney, 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros to halt the service, arguing its practices violated…

UPDATED, 7:40 PM: As of Tuesday, VidAngel, the filtering service earlier shut down by the court, is back as a revised streaming service that works in tandem with conventional movie and TV streaming services like Amazon and Netflix. “It is live now,” VidAngel chief executive Neal Harmon said in a brief telephone…

In a twist to the movie-filtering wars, ClearPlay, which offers streams of Hollywood films with potentially objectionable content blocked, confirmed that it has been prevented from providing new filtered titles through Google, even as competing VidAngel fights an injunction against its own service. In a statement…

2nd UPDATE, 6:25 AM: The studios released a new joint statement today saying VidAngel continues to infringe on their IP despite last week’s injunction blocking streaming of movies on the site. "Defying last week's injunction,” they said, “VidAngel continues to illegally stream our content without a license and is…

Federal judge Andre Birotte made no immediate ruling Monday on a request by several film studios to grant an injunction blocking VidAngel from continuing to stream films with objectionable content filtered out by consumer request. After listening to opposing arguments for about three hours in the U.S. District Court…

Look for the legal battle over the video-streaming of movies and TV shows from which objectionable moments have been filtered to heat up in advance of an October 24 hearing in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California in Los Angeles. On Monday, VidAngel — a Utah-based streaming service that was…

UPDATED, 6:50 PM: The 9th Circuit Court of Appeal today denied VidAngel’s request for an emergency stay on an injunction the company had sought last week. “Congress passed the Family Movie Act in 2005 because Hollywood had sued every company that offered content filtering for private, in-home viewing,” CEO Neal Harmon…