A Shanghai court has ordered a Chinese company to pay Rmb1.25m ($183,000) in damages to British drinks group Diageo for copying its packaging as part of a government crackdown on rampant piracy.

The court found that Blueblood (Shanghai) Wine copied the bottle design and packaging of Diageo’s popular Johnnie Walker Black Label whisky for its own brand of whisky, and continued to do so even after being fined by the Shanghai government, following a complaint from Diageo in 2006.