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| December 30 2024 | IMDb was closed as an independent site, with its content merged into Amazon Prime Video. |
| April 2022 | IMDb TV was rebranded as Amazon Freevee. |
| October 21 2021 | IMDb added the ability to include podcasts (both series and episodes) to their website, as announced by an IMDb employee on their Sprinklr forums. |
| June 2020 | The Ninth Circuit affirmed Judge Chhabria's judgment, holding the California AB-1687 statute unconstitutional as a content-based restriction violating the First Amendment. |
| 2019 | IMDb changed its policy on birth names, agreeing to remove birth names that are not widely and publicly known, particularly in response to concerns from LGBTQ groups about deadnaming transgender individuals. |
| January 2019 | IMDb launched an ad-supported streaming service called Freedive, which was rebranded as IMDb TV in June of the same year. |
| February 2018 | Judge Chhabria struck down the California AB-1687 statute. |
| April 2017 | IMDb celebrated its 25th anniversary, with Col Needham still managing the company from its main office in Bristol, UK. |
| February 23 2017 | Judge Vince Girdhari Chhabria issued a stay on the California AB-1687 bill, questioning its constitutionality and potential First Amendment violations. |
| January 2017 | California enacted state bill AB-1687, an anti-ageism statute requiring online entertainment services to hide subscribers' ages and birthdays upon request. |
| 2016 | The IMDb Studio at Sundance was launched, a talk show presented on IMDb and YouTube. |
| March 2015 | The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the district court judgment in the Hoang v. Amazon.com case. |
| April 2014 | The U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed the favorable patent infringement decision for IMDb in the case against Rovi Corporation. |
| 2013 | Judge Pechman dismissed all causes of action except for a breach of contract claim against IMDb, with a jury subsequently siding with IMDb. |
| 2011 | IMDb was sued by an anonymous actress (later revealed as Huong Hoang) for publicly disclosing her age without her consent. The lawsuit was initially dismissed by Judge Marsha J. Pechman. |
| 2011 | IMDb and Amazon were sued by Rovi Corporation and United Video Properties for patent infringement over program listing offerings. |
| 2010 | The site was filtered in China. |
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