Warner Bros and five other US movie giants have successfully sued the owners of a Beijing DVD shop that was selling counterfeit copies of their movies.

The Beijing No 1 Intermediate People's Court ordered the Beijing Cherry Blossom Star Culture Company and its affiliated DVD shop to pay 195,000 yuan ($24,400) to the US movie distributors. They had asked for 2.46 million yuan ($307,500) in damages.

Warner Bros, Columbia Pictures, Universal City Studios, Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox and Walt Disney sent their agents to purchase pirated copies of movies in the shop in 2005.