Seven film studios, including Walt Disney and Warner Brothers, have asked a Manhattan US federal court to shut down MovieTube, an online service that they accuse of brazenly violating their copyrights. In a suit filed on Friday against dozens of unnamed people and companies, the studios say the defendants are behind 29 websites gathered under the MovieTube name that stream pirated copies of films and TV shows.According to court papers, a notice on a Facebook page affiliated with MovieTube acknowledges that the streaming constitutes piracy and adds "luckily we are not a US company so we do not need to respect US laws".The studios asked the court to order the closure of the websites. They also want the MovieTube domain names transferred to them.Any third parties providing services to MovieTube, including social media sites, should be required to stop doing so, the studios said.The studios are also seeking damages of $150000 (about R1.9-million) for each work the copyright of which has been infringed, and $2-million for each infringed trademark.An attempt to reach MovieTube through its Facebook page failed...