DirecTV Extortion Program stopped by EFF

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday June 15, 2004 @03:16AM from the fighting-the-good-fight dept.

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. "

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Re:But... by holt · 2004-06-15 05:37 · Score: 0, Offtopic

This is entirely off-topic, but you're incorrect. OJ was not found innocent, he was found not guilty. There is a difference. Innocent means you didn't do it. Not guilty means there is reasonable doubt about whether or not you did it. IANAL, etc.