India Weekly

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IndiaWeekly
URL www.indiaweekly.com
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Launched1993

IndiaWeekly is a commercial website serving India and its diaspora, providing them with an online shopping platform for entertainment products like movies, music, and gifts.

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IndiaWeekly has over one million fans on social networking site Facebook. [1] At one point it owned 54% of the online Indian DVD market as per a court document. [2] Shivesh Kumar is the founder of IndiaWeekly. [2] [3] [4]

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. [2] 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. [2]

In April 2011, IndiaWeekly received a favorable ruling from a senior US District Judge Melancon Tucker, who ordered that all Yahoo records of Nehaflix for 2002 to present, including all customer records, be handed over to counsels of IndiaWeekly. [3] [4] A document from Yahoo that was produced as a result of a subpoena issued to them by IndiaWeekly stated that Yahoo records contained over 150,000 customer orders that were received via website Nehaflix.com. [2] IndiaWeekly received all of these customer records in the settlement. [2]

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References

  1. IndiaWeekly on Facebook
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Pacer: Indiaweekly.com, LLC v. Nehaflix.com et al, Case # 3:07-cv-00194-TLM". Archived from the original on 2012-03-25. Retrieved 2011-06-16.
  3. 1 2 "Court ordered Yahoo records to be turned over to IndiaWeekly". Archived from the original on 2011-08-14. Retrieved 2011-05-25.
  4. 1 2 "Docs.Justicia: ORDER on Motion to Compel - Indiaweekly.com, LLC v. Nehaflix.com et al". Archived from the original on 2016-03-06. Retrieved 2011-05-25.