Dish Awarded $650,000 in Damages for ZemTV Video Piracy

Dish Network, which had sought $1.95 million in damages from the creator of the ZemTV streaming service (see 1809070059), was awarded $650,000 -- $50,000 for each of 13 copyrighted works that ZemTV willfully infringed by retransmitting without authorization -- U.S. District Judge Vanessa Gilmore of Houston ordered Wednesday in docket 17-cv-01618 (see here, in Pacer). She also enjoined defendant Shahjahan Durrani, doing business as ZemTV, from retransmitting a list of channels to which Dish has copyright. Durrani didn't comment Friday.