On August 27, the US District Court for the District of Hawaii filed a consent judgement that resolved a piracy case brought by several movie producers against a Pakistan-based distributor of an app called Showbox, which, in turn, was used by more than a dozen streaming piracy sites to distribute pirated video content.
Although this distributor was not the developer of the Showbox app, and claimed that the Showbox was legitimate, he was fined $150,000.
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Why it matters
The infringing party was not the developer of the piracy app, nor was he located in the United States. Â Yet this decision underscores the extent to which content owners will pursue those who enable video piracy.
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