Mealey's (February 15, 2022, 8:03 AM EST) -- ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Adopting a magistrate’s recommendations, a Virginia federal judge on Feb. 10 awarded a group of plaintiff record labels $82,922,500 in statutory damages under the Copyright Act and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) against the operator of two stream-ripping websites that facilitated the unauthorized ripping and downloading of copyrighted songs from video streaming websites....