MANILA, Philippines — Media and entertainment network ABS-CBN recently filed a lawsuit against 22 pirate sites before a US Federal court in Daly City, California for copyright and trademark infringement.
ABS-CBN filed a Motion for Temporary Restraining Order in US Federal District Court against 22 pirate websites for damages of over $40 million. The network filed the complaint in pursuit of its continuing effort to protect its intellectual property from global piracy.
"As mentioned before, we are committed to implementing the zero tolerance policy on piracy of ABS-CBN Global COO Raffy Lopez. We know that over ninety percent of these pirate sites contain malware which can harm people by stealing the banking and personal information from their computers or phones," ABS-CBN AVP and Head of Global Anti-Piracy Elisha Lawrence said.
"We will continue to shut down these pirate sites to protect the public from harm. There is only one genuine ABS-CBN internet subscription service that is safe for our fans to use and that is TFC and TFC.tv," she added.
Last May 1, the federal judge in the case granted a preliminary injunction order. This resulted in the blocking and shutting down of all the domains.
The 22 domains in the complaint as well as their status are listed below.
Last February, ABS-CBN also for infringement of trademarks and registered copyrights of the media and entertainment firm's 27 television shows and movies, with damages amounting to over $8 million.
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