News Corp.'s Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. and five other Hollywood film studios have been awarded a total of 192,000 yuan ($25,500) in compensation from a Beijing seller of pirated DVDs, the China Court Web Site reported Friday. The case was heard in Beijing Xicheng District People's Court. The defendant was a video shop belonging to the Beijing Yongsheng Century International Cultural Development Co. The pirated films included "Lord of the Rings" and "The Day After Tomorrow," the Web site said. It didn't identify the five other studios.
Actually, the pirated films included every film produced in the last three years and 20% of the films worth watching in the last 20 years if they are anything like our DVD sellers. Expats love their DVDs. They've been after our piratiers in Shanghai and none of us like it.
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