Film Studios Win $24 Million Against Web Site

[Moloch]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hollywood's major movie studios said they won a $23.8 million judgment against a California company and its Malaysian owner for operating a Web site that charged customers to download illegally copied movies.

The company, MasterSurf Inc, is owned by Tan Soo Leong, and it operated a site called Film88.com, according to a statement by the Motion Picture Association of America, which represents the studios in governmental and industry matters.

The award was handed down earlier this week in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles as a default judgment, meaning the defendants never responded, according to the MPAA.

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[purduejake]

1. Good.

I think it is ridiculous how people in this country and especially others have no regard for copyrights. I'm certainly not for big business, but it's still stealing and people need to face the consequences.

On edit: I think that technology and intellectual property are very important to our economy, especially with the hemoraging of manufacturing jobs. We buy tons and tons of stuff from other countries and so much of the intellectual property we export is ripped off so we don't see a cent returned to our country. Go get em.