Xunlei

Film Studios Sue Chinese P2P Site Xunlei for $1 Million

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on February 15, 2008 - 10:42am.

Hong Kong - The Motion Picture Association (MPA) announced on Friday that six of its member studios have filed civil copyright infringement complaints totaling $1 million against Xunlei, a popular file-sharing network in China that is partly owned by Google (NASD: GOOG). The MPA stated that Xunlei's network offers "hundreds" of its members' titles, including "Spider-Man 3" and "Miami Vice," and noted that it sent 78 separate notices of infringement to Xunlei over a five-week period before initiating the litigation.

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