DISH Network Wins $25 Million Judgment

[Scott Greczkowski]

DISH Network Wins $25 Million Judgment, Permanent Injunction Against Satellite TV Pirate in California

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — June 1, 2011 — DISH Network L.L.C. and NagraStar L.L.C. secured another significant victory today in their fight against satellite TV piracy.

On May 25, 2011, the United States District Court for the Central District of California entered a consent Final Judgment and Permanent Injunction against Warren Scheibe, Nfusion Solaris : NfusionOnline.com, Welcome to the Future in FTA, and Scheibe’s distribution companies, Forward Motion Products, LLC and Forward Motion, Inc. DISH Network and NagraStar filed suit against Scheibe, based in Riverside, Calif., and his companies in June 2010 for their role in the marketing and distribution of nFusion-brand receivers and components.

The Court’s order prevents the defendants from marketing or distributing similar devices in the future and awarded DISH Network and NagraStar a judgment in the amount of $25 million against the distribution companies. Scheibe has also forfeited his substantial remaining nFusion inventory to NagraStar for destruction, as well as turned over the various nFusion-related websites used for marketing and online product sales. The Court’s permanent injunction further prevents the defendants from any future assistance in circumvention, which will carry a statutory penalty of up to $110,000 per violation.

NagraStar and DISH Network continue to investigate and prosecute individuals who engage in the circumvention of the NagraStar security technology or theft of DISH Network programming.

 

[yaz96]

Does he have that kind of dough?

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

I doubt they will ever see the $$$.

 

[Mr Tony]

interesting as those receivers they were dumb enough to have you hook them to the internet to get the "updates" to steal.

 

[Symbol]

eww nfusion

At least Dish is taking control of the situation. I remember seeing friends with "FTA" receivers in their homes and the complaints every time it "stopped working" until someone found a way to "Fix" it.


While that happened I laughed by being able to watch my channels without interruption by being a dish subscriber

 

[Mr Tony]

We get threads like that in the free to air area too. Those people are gone

There was some moron who actually posted that "there is nothing good on free to air now that N3 is in place"....oh really?????
I got plenty of good stuff on my free to air system

 

[Symbol]

Don't get me wrong, I once tried true fta when I lost my job and had to cancel dish for around 6 months, theres a ton of interesting stuff out there, people just call it crap because they expect to receive ESPN and other big networks for free legally.

heck the shop where I bought my viewsat ultra started selling the sonicview internet adapter for "updates and more epg info".... yeah right.

 

[Nominal]

I have a feeling this thread will set a record for quote marks around words.

 

[mechanicman]

At least no end users were affected (sued) except for a loss of their free tv...

 

[Symbol]

They would have to prove their illegal actions and have a unique way to identify end users in order to stand a chance in court.
Which is a big hassle considering the large number of users and modified "FTA" receivers.

 

[Symbol]

I agree, Dish gave them war but still those are just a few end users, it would take a miracle to find the thousands if not millions who were jacking their signal before Nagra 3 was implemented.

 

[Hemi 6.1]

Wow , Dish won a lawsuit!

Figures by a company that can't even afford to pay.

 

[navychop]

Well, Dish certainly should have the customer list. Surely purchasing the equipment in this case would be incriminating. Or could those boxes be used for legal purposes?

 

[mechanicman]

Well, Dish certainly should have the customer list. Surely purchasing the equipment in this case would be incriminating. Or could those boxes be used for legal purposes?

yes the FTA boxes are legal. downloading and installing a file and then using it to connect and view dishnet channels i guess is where it is kind of wrong....and lets say you were paying for these files and there was a paper trail to you...

 

[Hall]

While that happened I laughed by being able to watch my channels without interruption by being a dish subscriber

I remember years ago when hacking DirecTV (and I guess Dish) was quite popular/common. They rec'd EVERYTHING -- all the porn channels, all PPVs unlocked, etc, etc. They were the ones laughing at people who paid. What comes around goes around though.

 

[Hall]

Figures by a company that can't even afford to pay.

Dish doesn't care about the money nor do they expect to collect it (or likely even try to collect it). They just want the activity stopped.

 

[Hall]

Surely purchasing the equipment in this case would be incriminating. Or could those boxes be used for legal purposes?

DirecTV sued people who bought card readers/programmers when these devices by all means had legitimate uses. They can be for security cards, i.e. alarms. We used to go to a laundromat many years ago that used the same card design (it's actually an ISO-spec card). You put money in their "dispenser" that loaded the card with the funds and then swiped the washing machine or dryer.

Of course, these programmers were available at more obviously legitimate websites and if you had legitimate plans, it would make more sense to buy from them !! If you bought it from "www.satellite-pirates.com", you were asking for trouble !!