In the first civil suit in a computer software case in China, a local court has awarded Microsoft Corp, Antodesk Inc and WordPerfect Application Group US $54,500 in damages. In a significant ruling in the fight against software piracy in China, the Beijing Intermediate Court ordered Beijing Juren Computer Co to stop its piracy of DOS 6.2 and Windows 3.1 software. The court ordered Juren to apologise to the three plaintiffs in the nationally circulated Legal Daily and China Computer News, to turn over all pirated goods and pay the fine.