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Dish, EchoStar, Nagrastar Gain $97 Million Bounty In Piracy Battle

U.S. District Court Rules Against Freetech

John Eggerton -- Multichannel News, 8/26/2009 11:15:15 AM

Dish Network, co-owned equipment supplier EchoStar Technologies, and conditional access supplier Nagrastar have scored a big victory in their battle against signal piracy, according to the companies.

Dish said Tuesday that a California U.S. District Court had entered a $97 million judgment against Freetech Inc., which had been marketing a device under the Coolsat brand to pirate Dish signals, said the satellite company. There was also a $9 million judgment against the company's officers and owners.

In addition, Freetech agreed to forfeit its liquid assets to Dish and shut down its worldwide business.

A call to Freetech had not been returned at press time.

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• Just curious if you actually spoke to a rep from Dish Network. The court document hit the net last week and Dish Network has yet to make a press release on the subject. If you look at the header at the top of the document you will notice the lack of proper spacing between letters and numbers and the color of the font is wrong when compared to other court documents. Dish Network is typically very quick to comment on judgments in their favor. Did the representative you spoke with say anything on their lack of comment on the issue?

  
  P. Kelley - 8/27/2009 2:16:18 AM EDT
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