UPDATE: Monster Energy has released the following statement to E! News: "Although Monster Energy has great respect for the verdict of the jury, we strongly disagree with it. We will make an application to the Court to set aside the verdict and we intend to file an appeal. From the inception, Monster Energy has been willing to resolve this matter in a fair and equitable manner and we will continue to make additional efforts to reach a just resolution of this dispute. " 
 
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 You could say this is another Monster hit for the Beastie Boys. 
 
 The group, which in addition to Michael "Mike D" Diamond and Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz still includes the estate of Adam "MCA" Yauch, have won a $1.7 million verdict in their copyright lawsuit against Monster Beverage over the company's use of the group's music in a 2012 promotional video, according to Reuters. 
 
 "We're happy," Horovitz said after the hearing. "We just want to thank the jury." 
 
 The Beastie Boys had originally sought up to $2.5 million for copyright infringement and false endorsement. However, Monster countered that it owed no more than $125,000, calling the case "illogical" and saying an employee had mistakenly believed the company had permission to use the music. 

 (Updates with background of case, comment from Adam Horovitz) 
 
 By Nate Raymond and Bernard Vaughan 
 
 NEW YORK, June 5 (Reuters) - Beastie Boys' fight for their right to not let Monster Beverage Corp use the hip-hop group's music without their permission resulted in a verdict of $1.7 million on Thursday. 
 
 A federal jury in Manhattan issued the verdict on the eighth day of trial in a copyright dispute between members of the Brooklyn-born band and the energy drink maker over songs the band says Monster used without a license in a 2012 promotional video. 
 
 The Beastie Boys had sought up to $2.5 million for copyright infringement and false endorsement. 
 
 Monster countered that it owed no more than $125,000, calling the case "illogical" and saying an employee had mistakenly believed the company had permission to use the music. 
 
 Beastie Boys members Adam Horovitz, or "Ad-Rock," and Michael Diamond, or "Mike D," attended much of the trial and both testified. After the verdict was read, Horovitz hugged his wife, musician Kathleen Hanna. 
 
 "We're happy," Horovitz said after the hearing. "We just want to thank the jury." 
 
 Reid Kahn, a lawyer for Monster, said the company would appeal. 
 
 Filed in August 2012, the lawsuit centered on an online video promoting an annual snowboarding competition the company organizes and sponsors in Canada called "Ruckus in the Rockies." 
 
 The video, which Monster uploaded to YouTube, featured the competition and an after-party attended by DJs, including Z-Trip. It included a remix by Z-Trip of Beastie Boys songs, including "Sabotage," "So Watcha Want" and "Make Some Noise." 
 
 The four-minute video concluded with a sentence saying "RIP MCA." Adam Yauch, a Beastie Boys member who went by "MCA," died a day before the snowboarding event, after a battle with cancer. 
 
 The Beastie Boys complained to Monster in June 2012 and subsequently sued, saying the Corona, California-based company did not have permission to use its music. 
 
 "It stole the Beastie Boys' right to say no," Paul Garrity, a lawyer for the band, told jurors at the start of the trial. 
 
 Monster acknowledged it had infringed the Beastie Boys' copyrights, but contended it was not done willfully. 
 
 "The plaintiffs try to take the undisputed evidence and spin some tale of an insidious corporate conspiracy," Kahn, Monster's lawyer, told jurors Wednesday during closing arguments. (Reporting by Nate Raymond and Bernard Vaughan in New York; editing by Gunna Dickson)
– It's not the $2.5 million they wanted, but it's darn close. The Beastie Boys have been awarded $1.7 million in court after Monster Beverage used the band's music in a 2012 promotional ad without permission, E! reports. The money will be divided among Michael "Mike D" Diamond, Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz, and the estate of Adam "MCA" Yauch, who died days before the spot aired and had specified in his will that his music was not to be used in ads. Monster had called the case "illogical" and said an employee made an honest mistake, Reuters reports. The company had offered to pony up just $125,000. "We're happy," Horovitz said. "We just want to thank the jury." A lawyer for the band had said earlier the Monster video "stole the Beastie Boys' right to say no." The ad in question contained a mash-up of three Beastie Boys songs, "Sabotage," "So Whatcha Want," and Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun." A lawyer for the energy drink maker said the plaintiffs—no strangers to copyright infringement lawsuits—had tried to "spin some tale of an insidious corporate conspiracy." Monster plans to appeal.