An Arabic internet TV company has been ordered to pay a fine of 210mn Swedish crowns ($24mn) by a Swedish court, for using pirated content including English Premier League soccer without permission.
According to reports, the Stockholm district court ordered the Sweden-based Advanced TV Network (ATN), which distributes Arabic-language content over the internet, to pay 194.8mn crowns in damages to Qatar’s beIN Sports and 14.6mn crowns to Albanian TV group DigitAlb.
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Further, the court also sentenced ATN owner Hamid al-Hamid for two and a half years in prison, while his son Ahmed and another business associate were sentenced to one year each.
The three of them were found guilty of charges including misuse of decoding information and copyright violations.
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