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Satellite TV Offers DirecTV’s battle against signal theft and smart cards» DirecTV’s battle against signal theft and smart cardsIt is a widely known fact that there are many people receiving signal from satellite TV stations illegally without paying their monthly fees. What exactly are the Satellite TV Providers doing against pirates and how massive and effective are their actions, is a fact that is much less known. Taking DirecTV as an example, they have replaced their access cards last spring, and they claim no one has hacked the new cards so far, which means that it is impossible to steal DirecTV’s signal. Despite of that, DirecTV is still pursuing the old card hacking and signal theft cases vigorously. In cooperation with federal authorities in 2003, lists of customers of many suspect vendors of smartcards (devices built to pirate paid satellite TV signal) were confiscated. Since 2003 when they started with rather massive legal actions, federal lawsuits against 25.000 people were filled for tampering with satellite TV service. These are mainly people from the confiscated lists of customers who bought smart card (also called emulator, reprogrammer, bootloader and unlooper) on the internet. While those who settled their case are prohibited to disclose the settlement amount, DirecTV is said to demand $3,500 settlements initially. Out of those who did not settle, some were even ordered to pay $10,000 for failure to answer DirecTV’s legal complaints.
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