The company has already won several cases with damages ranging from a few hundred thousand to\u00a0millions of dollars<\/a>. However, the associated injunctions in these cases are perhaps even more significant.<\/p>\n We previously covered how ABS-CBN managed to get court orders to\u00a0seize domain names<\/a>, without the defendants getting actively involved. This is also the case in a recent lawsuit where a Florida federal court signed a broad injunction targeting more than two dozen sites that offered the company\u2019s content.<\/p>\n The websites, including abscbn-teleserye.com, dramascools.com, tvnijuan.org, pinoydailyshows.com and weeklywarning.org, may not be known to a broad audience but their domain names have all been suspended, linking to a takedown message instead.<\/p>\n What\u2019s most interesting, however, is that the advertising revenues of these sites were previously\u00a0frozen<\/a>. This was done to ensure that ABS-CBN would at least get some money if the defendants failed to respond, a strategy that seems to have paid off.<\/p>\n After the targeted site owners failed to respond, ABS-CBN requested a default judgment with damages for trademark and copyright infringement.<\/p>\n U.S. District Court Judge Cecilia Altonaga has now signed the order, awarding the media company over a million dollars in statutory trademark infringement damages. In addition, several of the sites must also pay copyright infringement damages.<\/p>\n The most interesting part of the order, however, is that Judge Altonaga grants ABS-CBN the previously seized advertising revenues.<\/p>\n \u201cAll funds currently restrained by the advertising services, networks, and\/or platforms [\u2026], pursuant to the temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction in this action are to be immediately (within five business days) transferred to Plaintiffs in partial satisfaction of the monetary judgment entered herein against each Defendant,\u201d the Judge writes.<\/p>\n This is the first time, to our knowledge, that a copyright holder has been granted advertising revenue from pirate sites in this manner. While it\u2019s not known how much revenue the sites were making, there is bound to be some.<\/p>\n This could be a common legal tactic going forward because, generally speaking, it is very hard to get money from defaulting defendants who are relatively anonymous, or living in a foreign jurisdiction. By going after the advertisers, copyright holders have a good chance of securing some money, at least.<\/p>\n \u2014<\/em><\/p>\n A copy of the default judgment is available\u00a0here (pdf)<\/a>\u00a0and all affected websites are listed below.<\/p>\n \u2013 abscbn-teleserye.com Source: \u00a0![\"\"](\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/images\/damagesabs.png\")
<\/center>The default judgment also orders associated registrars and registries to hand over the domain names to ABS-CBN. Thus far several domains have been seized already, but some foreign companies have not complied, most likely because they fall outside the US jurisdiction.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/images\/seizeads.png\")
<\/center>The sites in question used advertising services from a variety of well-known networks, including Google Adsense, MGID, Popads, AdsKeeper, and Bidvertiser. None of these companies responded in court after the initial seizure order, suggesting that they did not object.<\/p>\n
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