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1996 Economic Espionage Act and DirectTV

Posted by michael on from the red-handed dept.

Pharmboy writes "The Register reports a 19 year old will plead guilty to the 1996 Economic Espionage Act for giving away DirectTV secrets, even though they admit he did not pirate the service or profit from the theft." See our original story on this case.

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  1. Excellent by dmadole · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm all for this.

    This case should not be confused with an independent person doing a "clean room" reverse engineering of the technology. This person was in a position of trust and violated that trust by stealing something that didn't belong to him.

    It's irrelevant that he did not profit from this. The cost to DirecTV is the same whether he used the information himself or passed it on to someone else who did.

    Why is this in YRO again? What rights online does this concern?