Remember, It's not the "real" hackers that were defeated. The "common pirate," the ones who downloaded their programs from sites all over the web were the ones that suffered. Anyone, regardless of their programming knowledge, could buy a $225.00 programmer and download software for free. Real hackers are watching DTV as we speak, and their technology will soon be made public just as the reader/writers and unloopers were. DirecTV beat the little guys!
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Remember, It's not the "real" hackers that were defeated. The "common pirate," the ones who downloaded their programs from sites all over the web were the ones that suffered. Anyone, regardless of their programming knowledge, could buy a $225.00 programmer and download software for free. Real hackers are watching DTV as we speak, and their technology will soon be made public just as the reader/writers and unloopers were. DirecTV beat the little guys!