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EchoStar is the latest company to target News Corp.'s TV technology arm NDS in the legal arena, alleging in a federal court filing that NDS employees hacked into access cards from Nagra, the conditional access technology used by EchoStar.
In a filing sent to the U.S. District Court in San Francisco, EchoStar alleged that NDS was attempting to pirate technology "intended to facilitate the reception and decryption of EchoStar's encrypted satellite-delivered television programming service by persons not authorized to receive such programming." EchoStar's filing at the court seeks to intervene in a lawsuit Canal Plus Technologies filed against NDS alleging - among other things - copyright infringement, tortious interference with contract, and unfair competition.
In a statement, NDS rejected the EchoStar litigation as baseless. "NDS had nothing to do with the piracy of EchoStar's DBS system, or any other system. We have a long-standing commitment to eradicating piracy from the entire conditional access industry and have spent millions of dollars and thousands of man hours towards that goal," said NDS President and CEO Abe Peled.
"The proposed EchoStar/NagraStar complaint is basically a repetition of Canal Plus' groundless lawsuit, which was filed over six months ago," Peled added. "If this complaint were really about remedying a wrong done to EchoStar and NagraStar, it would have been brought sooner. EchoStar and NagraStar are bringing this lawsuit now in an obvious attempt to distract attention from the numerous problems of those involved with EchoStar and NagraStar and to harm NDS."
Earlier this month, DirecTV filed a separate suit against NDS, alleging misappropriation of trade secrets, fraud and other violations relating to services delivered by the satellite TV company. The unrelated suit is under seal in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles.
From SkyReport (Used with Permission)
In a filing sent to the U.S. District Court in San Francisco, EchoStar alleged that NDS was attempting to pirate technology "intended to facilitate the reception and decryption of EchoStar's encrypted satellite-delivered television programming service by persons not authorized to receive such programming." EchoStar's filing at the court seeks to intervene in a lawsuit Canal Plus Technologies filed against NDS alleging - among other things - copyright infringement, tortious interference with contract, and unfair competition.
In a statement, NDS rejected the EchoStar litigation as baseless. "NDS had nothing to do with the piracy of EchoStar's DBS system, or any other system. We have a long-standing commitment to eradicating piracy from the entire conditional access industry and have spent millions of dollars and thousands of man hours towards that goal," said NDS President and CEO Abe Peled.
"The proposed EchoStar/NagraStar complaint is basically a repetition of Canal Plus' groundless lawsuit, which was filed over six months ago," Peled added. "If this complaint were really about remedying a wrong done to EchoStar and NagraStar, it would have been brought sooner. EchoStar and NagraStar are bringing this lawsuit now in an obvious attempt to distract attention from the numerous problems of those involved with EchoStar and NagraStar and to harm NDS."
Earlier this month, DirecTV filed a separate suit against NDS, alleging misappropriation of trade secrets, fraud and other violations relating to services delivered by the satellite TV company. The unrelated suit is under seal in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles.
From SkyReport (Used with Permission)
