Seller Ordered to Pay Dish $2.1M for Stealing Super Arab IPTV Service
U.S. District Judge George Hanks for Southern Texas in Houston ordered a local seller of the Super Arab IPTV service to pay Dish Network $2.1 million in damages for infringing 14 registered, copyrighted works that Dish owns and that the…
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defendants willfully and maliciously infringed by transmitting and providing access to. The order was handed down Nov. 28 (docket 4:20-cv-01678) and publicized Tuesday by the International Broadcaster Coalition Against Piracy (IBCAP), of which Dish is a member. The case is “yet another example of what happens when a local dealer ignores IBCAP cease and desist notices,” said Chris Kuelling, the group’s executive director, in a statement. “We will enforce this order against dealers of the Super Arab service, non-parties associated with Super Arab, and the transfer of domains critical to the operation of the service.”