“Two years after DirecTV launched a legal onslaught against thousands of alleged satellite television ‘pirates,’ a Florida resident who was sued by the company is now claiming malicious prosecution.” The company has filed numerous actions against persons it believes have been in possession of illegal signal piracy devices — famed non-murderer O.J. Simpson is one such defendant — but critics charge (see Jul. 24) that it is casting too broad a net. “The legal assault began after a series of raids on companies that sold decoders enabling viewers to steal DirecTV’s signal. The satellite television operator obtained the names of some 100,000 people in the raids from credit card receipts and other lists.” In the Florida case, Luc Senatus alleges that he was a victim of credit card theft and neither purchased nor received a signal decoder, but was sued by DirecTV anyway. (Matthew Haggman, Miami Daily Business Review, Mar. 26).(& letter to the editor, Oct. 31). Update: see also Crime and Federalism, Feb. 15, 2006 (court rules suits by DirecTV not a RICO violation).
“DirecTV accused of filing baseless suit”
“Two years after DirecTV launched a legal onslaught against thousands of alleged satellite television ‘pirates,’ a Florida resident who was sued by the company is now claiming malicious prosecution.” The company has filed numerous actions against persons it believes have been in possession of illegal signal piracy devices — famed non-murderer O.J. Simpson is one […]
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