''IndiaWeekly'' is a commercial website serving India and its
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, providing them with an online shopping platform for entertainment products like movies, music, and gifts.
IndiaWeekly has over one million fans on
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/ref> At one point it owned 54% of the online Indian DVD market as per a court document.[ Shivesh Kumar is the founder of IndiaWeekly.][
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Court case against Nehaflix
IndiaWeekly sued its competitor Nehaflix for an amount in excess of a million dollars in the U.S. Federal Court alleging that they hacked into their computer system and stole its trade secrets.
After a lawsuit which involved more than 250 court filings and which lasted around five years, IndiaWeekly finally got the Nehaflix.com website to be permanently shut down in a settlement.[
In April 2011, IndiaWeekly received a favorable ruling from a senior US District Judge Melancon Tucker, who ordered that all ]Yahoo
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records of Nehaflix for 2002 to present, including all customer records be handed over to counsels of IndiaWeekly.
A document from Yahoo
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that was produced as a result of a subpoena issued to them by IndiaWeekly stated that Yahoo
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records contained over 150,000 customer orders that was received via website Nehaflix.com.[ IndiaWeekly received all of these customer records in the settlement.][
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See also
*Asian Age
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The same publishing company also prod ...
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