Netflix, Inc. and Disney-ABC Television Group announced a new licensing agreement between the two companies that will allow Netflix to stream episodes from the ABC Television Network, Disney Channel and ABC Family.
The Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) announced that a pair of counterfeiters who ran a £1 million illegal DVD copying operation in Milton Keynes England have been jailed for a total of more than three years.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced that a Nigerian woman is facing state charges for her role in an international operation after authorities seized nearly 6,500 pirated DVDs from her Chicago apartment. The charges resulted from an investigation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Cook County Sheriff’s Office in Illinois.
Mobile TeleSystems and The Walt Disney Company CIS signed a deal to deliver Disney’s movies and television shows via the Internet in Russia.