U.S. Court Awards $21 Million to ABS-CBN in Piracy Case

ABS-CBN Corp. was awarded about $21 million in trademark damages months after it sued dozens of websites which allegedly pirated its content in the U.S. and abroad, the Philippine media company said.

A Florida court ruled against 21 website operators, ordering them to pay $1 million each, while some of them were required to pay as much as $90,000 for copyright infringement, ABS-CBN said in a statement on Tuesday.

Despite not knowing the identities of the operators, the order required advertisers to turn over any restrained revenue generated by the websites, the company said. The websites were also ordered to ...