Unless the intent of Congress is to provide a windfall to the violator's competitor, then that's not a loophole. As I see it, the intent of the law is to get the offender out of the business of selling DNS. Dish is out of that business, and has lost the millions of dollars per month worth of revenue that DNS provided them. That's enough punishment.I honestly don't believe it is "over", yet.
Now that a loophole has been found, someone will go marching into Congress to have the loophole closed, to an extent.
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As I've said, and others have said, unless there are some under the table kickbacks from NPS to Dish, then this is an arms-length transponder lease agreement, with NPS free to do whatever they want to with those transponders, is within the scope of the law, and abides by the intent of the law, as well as the judge's ruling.