The Nazereth District Court ordered an Israeli CD factory to pay over 6 million NIS (about US$ 1.5 million) for copying CD "masters" and manufacturing counterfeit CD's therefrom. The claim was filed by the largest worldwide record labels in 1999. The defendants admitted the wrongdoing and the court only had to decide about the amount of damages. The court ruled that there were 580 separate infringements and awarded the plaintiffs with the minimum amount of statutory damages for each infringement (10,000 NIS), plus attorney's fees and costs. which amount to more than 6 million NIS. This is one of the most significant amounts of damages awarded in IP cases in Israel ever.