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ccarmichael
06-12-03, 06:14 PM
http://biz.yahoo.com/djus/030611/1859001473_2.html

Court Finds EchoStar Violated Copyright Law
Wednesday June 11, 6:59 pm ET
By Mark Wigfield


WASHINGTON -- A federal judge in Florida ruled in favor of the four television networks in a long-standing copyright case against satellite television provider EchoStar Communications Corp. (NasdaqNM:DISH - News) .
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In a decision released Wednesday, U.S. District Court Judge William P. Dimitrouleas found that EchoStar illegally provided viewers with network signals from distant network affiliates when the viewers could have received local stations over the air.

But he declined to impose the harshest penalty allowed, which would have barred EchoStar from providing via satellite any signals from local broadcast stations. Analysts estimate that several hundred thousand EchoStar customers still get distant network signals illegally and may lose those signals.

But the majority of the company's 8.5 million subscribers won't be affected, the company said

aperry
06-12-03, 09:33 PM
Interesting how in the discussion at:

http://www.dbstalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=15928

Dish tries to make things sound like they were found to be in compliance (mostly).

Jacob S
06-12-03, 09:42 PM
I have thought the same thing. Its odd how I hear that they have been found to be in compliance of the distant network signals yet not in compliance either. Maybe this is about two seperate things in that the copyright violation was over something else.

Mike123abc
06-13-03, 12:00 AM
It has to do with which databases they used to try to qualify. Dish was using interference and stuff to justify locals to some addresses that they can no longer use. So now the addresses that qualify for distants are much fewer in number.