Default Set-Top Piracy Judgment Awards Us Too Much, Plaintiffs Say

The May 31 default judgment and permanent injunction against Create New Technology (CNT) and Hua Yang International Technology (HYIT) wrongly said the defendants have to pay $326.3 million, instead of $55.4 million, plaintiffs Dish Network, China Central TV and TVB Holdings said in a request for a modification filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles. The order sets damages at $326.3 million, but the December amended order granting the plaintiffs' motion for default judgment awarded $55.4 million in copyright and trademark damages, and the May order should be amended, Dish and the others said. The May order (in Pacer) also mistakenly left blank the amount of the attorneys' fees awarded, which is $1.4 million, they said. The injunction bans distributing or selling the TVpad set-top box; any transmission, streaming or hosting of the plaintiffs' copyrighted material; and hosting or distributing any infringing TVpad apps. Dish and the other plaintiffs sued CNT and HYIT last year, alleging piracy via that company's TVpad set-top, and are pursuing similar litigation against set-top maker HTV International in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn (see 1608030011).