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EFF Coordinates Fight Against DirecTV
wumarkus420 writes "In response to recent lawsuits filed by DirecTV against purchasers of smartcard equipment, the EFF and Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society have announced a new site devoted to the legal fight against DirecTV's aggressions. Hopefully, this new site will provide innocent consumers that have been threatened under the veil of the DMCA with professional legal advice and information."
Hey asshole, before satellite I could only get 23 channels from my crappy cable company for $35/month. Now I get several hundred channels for half that price.
They are not going after legitimate smart cart vendors. You can still buy those at places such as http://www.didya.com
They only sent letters to people who bought the readers that had been modified to write to directv's cards by circumventing their security measures. The readers were explicitly advertised for this use only.
No one is taking away your ability to buy a regular smart card reader.
tanguyr, you should run for office.
you're on to something.
as you no doubt know, it is illegal in the US to shorten the length of a shotgun barrel because such weapons were once popular among criminals who robbed american banks..
as it is illegal in the US to sell bongs because some people use them to smoke substances which grow naturally in american forests....
other uses? please don't bother me with details.
guilt by association, baby.
all courtesy of your friendly grand old lying party.
they used to call it racial profiling, but they're far more clever than that now....
"what about individual rights," you say.
"sorry, we're fresh out, sir."
"what about due process," you cry.
"you terrorist."
end of discussion.