A US Court has entered an injunction against a consumer of pirated programming, and fined him US$10,000 in statutory damages. Michael Blair was hit with the judgment by a Federal court in Austin, Texas after the court found he “received copyrighted, subscription-based DISH Network satellite television programming without authorization and without payment to DISH Network.” Blair bought a subscription from a pirate “internet key sharing” service, with servers in Canada, that sent him decryption control words for Dish Network’s programming. A summary of the case can be downloaded here.
Interested members can track this, and other piracy actions in North America, on the website www.satscams.com, which is operated by Nagrastar, a joint venture of CASBAA member companies Nagravision and Echostar.