DirecTV Extortion Program stopped by EFF

eticket writes "After several years of an Organized Extortion program DirecTV has been stopped by the EFF. As many of you may know DirecTV has been suing people who purchased card programers even if they had legitimate reasons for them. Many have settled to avoid legal issues. The problem was they had to prove innocence instead of DirecTV proving guilt. The only thing that DirecTV did was say they purchased the card programmer from a site that sold Satellite pirating equipment. Even though there are legitimate uses. Thanks to the EFF for stopping this horrible miscarriage of the legal system. "

Comments

Borrowing

[Anonymous Coward]

So if you only borrowed the signal for a short amount of time is that the same thing as stealing?

Not that I have anything to hide... really.

Re:What are legitimate uses

[Steve Cox]

> If you stand outside my house and throw rolls of
> quarters through my window, I'm keeping them, so
> fuck you.

Damn right. They would help pay for the broken glass.

Steve.

I can name legitimate uses for chip cards

[SpaghettiPattern]

• Tooth picking.
• Opening doors when you're a detective.
• Sorting coke in lines for scientific purposes.
• Collectors items.
• Killer circling weapon it you're James Bond.
• Put in mount and make funny faces.
• Pretend to be a dandy with loads of credit cards.
• Screw driver.
• Wear in the heart region as bullet protection.
• Glue spreader.

Re:So... should i go with Dish Network

[warrax_666]

[...] to make the headlines funny enough such that somebody just tuning in would not confuse it with the real Fox News ticker.

Hehe, maybe they thought that the fact that the news was being presented by a cartoon character wouldn't be enough indication that the ticker was not real.

Re:Lawsuit!

[reve]

> IAALBIANYL--GYOGDL,YMNO

I am a lawyer but i am not your lawyer -- get your own god damn lawyer, you... mother nookin' orangutan?

Help me out here.