Hotfile.com Ordered to pay $80 Million to Hollywood movie companies

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Holleywood studios have won a copyright suit against a file sharing website Hotfile. (updated on 2nd Sep) And yesterday, December 3rd, Florida judge ordered 80 million dollars in damages and also shut down the site in 20 days, Wall Street Journa updated.

Hotfile was the most popular file sharing site on the internet. Users can upload files and can make profits from the files when it gets popular. Grokster, another file download site had been shut down by court decisions, the article added.

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