Court Holds U.S. Retailer Accountable for Promoting Piracy

Hardly as exciting as the old days when they went after the companies selling card emulators and programmers.

I remember that. Get a list of customer names, send out nasty grams and see how many responses they could get

There where so many, they only went after the ones who responded back to their letter and ended up settling for $2500
 
Yes, most of these pirates live outside the U.S. I have heard some live in Russia. So it will be hard for the U.S. Gov to go after those. Tracking a consumer is not easy to do, unless there is some paper trail. What Roku is doing, is to just drop the channel in question when they get a complaint. Some Private Channels offer pirated material, but as soon as they get a complaint the service drops the app. But since the days of early cable TV, the TV scrambling was hacked. If our elections, the U.S. Government, and the power grids are hacked there is little that can be done except block the channel.
 

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