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A court ordered a Beijing company on Wednesday to pay 195,000 yuan (US$25,000; euro18,500) in damages to six U.S. movie studios for selling pirated DVDs, a court official said, in the latest in a string of lawsuits over Chinese film piracy ...
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Surprized at the small fines:
And also surprized at how they cited Yahoo for online music piracy as well .....The Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People's Court ordered the company to pay 15,000 yuan (US$1,900; euro1,400) for each of the 13 movies, said Niu Cheng, an official of the court's General Office.
On Monday, a Beijing court ruled that Yahoo Inc. (nasdaq: YHOO - news - people )'s China arm aided online music piracy in a lawsuit brought by a trade group representing 11 recording companies.
Yahoo China was ordered to pay 210,000 yuan (US$27,000; euro20,000) in damages because its search engine linked to Web sites that carried unlicensed copies of 229 songs.
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