Jury Mostly Sides with NDS in Dish Hacking Case
SkyReport (05/15/08)
BREAKING NEWS: (California) Jury Mostly Sides with NDS in Hacking Case, Say Reports
According to press reports out of California, a federal jury - for the most part - cleared NDS Group of any wrongdoing in a case involving allegations that the News Corp. unit hacked DISH Network's conditional access technology.
Reuters reported that the jury awarded DISH only $1,500 in damages against NDS for a single incident with a satellite TV smart card. DISH and its conditional access provider NagraStar were seeking as much as $1 billion in the case.
The jury deliberated for about a day Tuesday on the case. The federal judge overseeing the trial had sealed the jury decision until this morning.
SkyReport (05/15/08)
BREAKING NEWS: (California) Jury Mostly Sides with NDS in Hacking Case, Say Reports
According to press reports out of California, a federal jury - for the most part - cleared NDS Group of any wrongdoing in a case involving allegations that the News Corp. unit hacked DISH Network's conditional access technology.
Reuters reported that the jury awarded DISH only $1,500 in damages against NDS for a single incident with a satellite TV smart card. DISH and its conditional access provider NagraStar were seeking as much as $1 billion in the case.
The jury deliberated for about a day Tuesday on the case. The federal judge overseeing the trial had sealed the jury decision until this morning.