Lemo TV Lawsuit: DISH Seeks $28.65M Default Judgment

The Lemo TV lawsuit is a federal copyright case in which DISH Network is seeking a $28.65 million default judgment against the Malaysia-based operators of Lemo TV and Kemo IPTV, along with a Florida reseller that sold access to the services in the United States. The defendants never appeared, the court has entered defaults, and as of mid-2026 the judge had not yet ruled on the damages motion.¹

What Lemo TV Was

Lemo TV and its sister service Kemo IPTV were subscription streaming services that delivered thousands of live channels and on-demand programming over the internet, including copyrighted content from at least 22 channels owned by members of the International Broadcaster Coalition Against Piracy (IBCAP). Single-device plans ran from $11 to $69 depending on term length, from one month up to a year, with a 36-hour trial offered on top.²

The operation had a wholesale side too. For under $200, resellers could spin up their own branded IPTV sites and apps, buy credits from the platform, and mark up subscriptions to their own customers. One such reseller, a St. Petersburg, Florida operation called 1 Dollar IPTV, became a defendant.²

By the first quarter of 2025, Lemo TV and Kemo IPTV accounted for nearly 30 percent of all unauthorized streams detected by IBCAP’s monitoring lab across the set-top box and IPTV platforms it tracks.³ DISH alleged the operators rotated hosting locations to stay ahead of enforcement, with part of the infrastructure routed through a UK-based provider that had advertised a policy of ignoring DMCA takedown notices.²

Four Years of Ignored Takedown Notices

IBCAP started sending infringement notices to the operators in February 2021. Over the next four years it sent roughly 100 notices, and the services did not stop.⁴ DISH separately sent 96 notices directly and says it never got a response.² That paper trail is the backbone of DISH’s willfulness argument, which is what unlocks the highest tier of statutory damages.

How the Case Got to Court

DISH filed first in April 2025 in the Southern District of Texas against unnamed “Doe” defendants, because at that point it did not know who was behind the services (Case No. 4:25-cv-01587).⁵ The court granted expedited discovery, which let DISH subpoena hosting providers, domain registrars, payment processors, and Google to pull identifying information.⁶ DISH then dismissed the Texas action and refiled in October 2025 in the Middle District of Florida with named defendants.⁷

Who’s Being Sued

The Florida complaint names four defendants:

Kemo E Marketing Sdn. Bhd., a Malaysian company alleged to be the primary operator of the Lemo TV and Kemo IPTV services.
Noorhayati Binti Abdul Rahim, the sole shareholder of Kemo E Marketing, based in Malaysia.
Ammar Towir, a Malaysia-based individual alleged to own and operate the Lemo and Kemo domains and financial accounts.
Artistry Group LLC, doing business as 1 Dollar IPTV, the Florida reseller. The company voluntarily dissolved on February 27, 2025, but DISH alleges the business or its successors kept operating 1 Dollar IPTV afterward.²

The Malaysian defendants are charged with direct copyright infringement. The Florida reseller is charged with contributory and vicarious infringement.¹

What DISH Is Asking For

The damages breakdown is straightforward. DISH cites at least 181 registered copyrighted works and seeks the willful-infringement maximum of $150,000 per work against the Lemo and Kemo operators, which comes to $27.15 million. It seeks an additional $1.5 million from Artistry Group for 10 works. Combined demand: $28.65 million.¹

Money is only half the request. DISH also wants a broad permanent injunction that would order three hosting providers, IPv4 Superhub Limited, 24 Shells Inc., and INTERKVM HOST SRL, to disable IP addresses connected to the services. Nineteen domain names would transfer to DISH, including Kemoiptv.com, Lemotv.com, 1DollarIPTV.com, and 1DollarIPTV.net. An “evergreen” clause would let DISH shut down any future domains the defendants stand up without filing a new case.¹

Where the Case Stands

None of the defendants answered the complaint. The court entered a default against all parties for failure to defend, and DISH moved to convert the default into a formal judgment.⁸ As of mid-2026 the court had not ruled on the $28.65 million motion.¹

The services reportedly kept running through the litigation. 1 Dollar IPTV’s website was still online and still advertising itself as the “Best IPTV Service USA,” and the Lemo and Kemo domains had not been seized or transferred.² A default judgment on paper and an actual shutdown are different things, and collecting from Malaysia-based defendants who have not appeared adds a further layer of difficulty.

How the $28.65 Million Number Works

The damages figure comes from 17 U.S.C. § 504(c), the statutory damages provision of U.S. copyright law. A copyright owner can elect statutory damages rather than proving actual losses. The ordinary range is $750 to $30,000 per work; when infringement is willful, the ceiling rises to $150,000 per work.⁹ The statute also creates a rebuttable presumption of willfulness when a defendant knowingly gives false contact information to a domain name registrar in connection with the infringement.¹⁰ DISH is asking for the top of that range on every registered work at issue.

The Separate Innetra Case

DISH pursued the Lemo and Kemo infrastructure on a second track by suing UK-based hosting provider Innetra PC in the Northern District of California in May 2025 for $25 million (Case No. 5:25-cv-03933). That case is not part of the Florida action against the operators, and it did not go DISH’s way. On March 5, 2026, Judge Noel Wise dismissed it for lack of personal jurisdiction, finding that Innetra, run from the Seychelles, did not direct its activities at the United States and had only two brief U.S.-based subscribers.¹¹ DISH filed a notice of appeal to the Ninth Circuit on April 1, 2026.¹² The outcome of that appeal has no direct effect on the Florida default motion, but it shows the jurisdictional problem DISH will keep running into when the people behind these services sit outside the country.

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