Russia’s leading DTH platform Tricolor TV has announced court decisions on a number of criminal cases and civil lawsuits it has initiated against pirates.
In one, a court in the Republic of Karelia awarded the company R330,000 (€6,838) against two brothers for an illegal card sharing scheme.
Besides being fined, both received a one-year prison sentence.
In another, in neighbouring Belarus rather than Russia itself, a court in Minsk convicted a person of distributing counterfeit smart cards.
Tricolor TV then filed and won a civil suit – just as in the Republic of Karelia – and was awarded the local equivalent of R384,104.