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According to Forbes, anime distributer Odex has won a suit against Singapore ISP StarHub, allowing it to gain the names of 1,000 subscribers accused of illegally downloading anime. The penalty Odex can get from each is up to 5,000 SGD (USD $3,285) and the users will have to destroy the stolen content and refrain from any future illegal downloading. StarHub tried to fight the request initially and cited “an obligation to protect our customers’ information”. Odex also won a similar suit earlier this year against another ISP, SingNet, with about the same number of customers involved and is seeking a third one against Pacific Internet for another thousand customers.
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