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Motion Picture Association Gets $23.8 Million Win Against Internet Movie Pirate
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As Aunty reported to you all earlier this month here, the Motion Picture Association (MPA) is going on a lawsuit blitz, suing anyone they can get their hands on who has impermissibly downloaded even just one movie.
This week it appears that their wide-dragging net caught a big fish, as they were awarded 23.8 million dollars against the owner of Film88.com, Tan Soo Leong.
Leong, a Malaysian…cough..business man, also was behind MasterSurf, Inc., a company which organized computer servers overseas to avoid legal liability in the United States (apparently it didn’t work).
In addition to paying $23.8 million in damages, Leong was ordered to… [Continued...]