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A federal court in Texas has ordered a former employee of a local phone store to pay $6,250 in piracy damages. The woman, who was fired, promoted the piracy app Popcorn Time to customers and also downloaded pirated content herself. The damages award is substantially lower than the $162,500 that was claimed by several movie studios.Millions of people around the world use pirate apps on their mobile devices to stream TV-shows and movies.
This is a problem for copyright holders, which have tried to tackle the problem in recent years, both in and outside of court.