DirecTV to Pursue Pirates

Trinity-Infinity writes "This story from CNNfn details DirecTV's & Hughes Electronics' plans to eliminate the piracy of their signals through a direct-mail campaign. Their source for creating their list of who to mail letters to? Searching bootlegging operations the feds have already busted. It is interesting that as many as 1 million people may be pirating, in comparison to DirecTV's 10 million paying customers." Ya know, I really want to pirate DirecTV, but not to get all the channels... just to get a damn FOX affiliate over my dish so I could use my DirecTivo for The Family Guy and That 70s Show. Is that to much to ask? I already pay for HBO and Sci-Fi channel. Anyway, there's definitely going to be a lot more cracking down on pirated dish stuff: they are getting crazy with the protective measures.

Comments

jerks

[Anonymous Coward]

last time they shut people down during WWF pay-per-view match. what could be worse than that? haven't they done enough?

Re:jerks

[sqlrob]

Waiting till the end of the match?

the cycle of piracy.....

[4n0nym0u$ C0w4rd]

ha our triple-super-duper-protection device will foil you!!!

Oh yeah, the Z34Vfds3 shreds your protection HAR HAR HAR!!!

ahh-haa!! quadruple-super-dee-duper protection device 4943jffj$, try to stop this!!!!!

Oh jeez, it took 25 minutes for my pet chimpanzee to figure out a work-arround with his model: sld2383D slide ruler....but my parrot had to help him, so I guess you made progress

hmmmm, let's get them arrested. HAHAHA.

Jeez, you got two of us, out of 3 million....good job.

now repeat from the beginning accept change the letter/numbers of the devices arround and add a few dee-dupers.....Piracy will continue no matter what, accept it and concentrate on making your products better, nothing has worked yet and nothing ever will.

Re:Just the channels I want

[Tackhead]

> Man, I wish I got the goatse.cx channel!
> All prolapsed rectums - ALL THE TIME!

Who are you, and how did you get your hads on the FOX new season lineup? I'll have you know, trading in SirCam-leaked information can still get you sued ;-)

names and addresses

[canning]

As many as 100,000 names and addresses were collected from searches of alleged bootleg equipment operations

O.K. we have search and arrest warrents for a Mr. S. Clause, I.P. Freely, Phil McKraken, and George Washington. We're still waiting on the ones for Clark Kent and M. Monroe. Let's roll.

Ha ha, what chumps. Why don't they just go door to door and ask people if they're stealing Direct TV's signal?

Agent: "Sorry to bother you sir but I'm Agent Thompson from the FBI, are you stealing a Direct T.V. signal?"
Man at Door: "No."
Agent: "Fair enough, thanks for your time."

Pirates should be treated this way

[Anonymous Coward]

So this old haggard man of the sea walks into a bar, sits down, and orders a drink. Now, this wouldn't be worth note normally, but he has a steering wheel hanging out of his fly. Not wanting to be rude to a new customer, the bartender says nothing of it and gives him his drinks.

This man starts to become a good customer, so finally, the bartender asks him, "I've really aprecaited your business this past week, but what's with the wheel hanging out of your fly?"

So the man says, "Aye there matey, It's driving me nuts!"

Two Wrongs...?

[Foggy Tristan]

So...they're combatting piracy by using junk mail.

What happens with pirates who have opted out of junk mail? Get off scott-free?