DirecTV hacker sentenced to seven years

DirecTV hacker sentenced to seven years
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2004-12-10

A Canadian man was sentenced to seven years in a U.S. prison this week after admitting he led a sophisticated satellite TV piracy ring that produced and sold thousands of hacked smart cards in the U.S. and Canada.

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DirecTV hacker sentenced to seven years 2004-12-11
Anonymous (1 replies)

I take it they mean "cost" as in, if everyone paid for service instead of using hacked cards then the satellite companies would have made that... not quite the same....

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Re: DirecTV hacker sentenced to seven years 2006-09-01
Doc (1 replies)

RONTGLMAO... They should have given him 50 years, along with putting his daughter in Jail, for stealing the programming... Now if they can just find the money that he made... LOL

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Re: Re: DirecTV hacker sentenced to seven years 2007-01-29
Anonymous

Sounds like you know something, Doc? Are you involved in some kind of conspiracy?

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DirecTV hacker sentenced to seven years 2004-12-13
Anonymous

To hell with this - any signal that trespasses on my land is subject to my use however I see fit. ...

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DirecTV hacker sentenced to seven years 2004-12-14
Anonymous

I'm sick of seeing tech savvies going to jail while real criminals are out loose!...

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DirecTV hacker sentenced to seven years 2004-12-15
Anonymous (1 replies)

"important service to 20 million American"

Important service? You broadcast television. A little full of ourselves, aren't we?...

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DirecTV hacker sentenced to seven years 2004-12-21
Anonymous

Moreover, those broadcasted TV signals already contain advertising, which pays for some of the producers' costs. Charging for distribution of TV signals is 'double taxation' i.e customers paying for actually seeing the ads......

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DirecTV hacker sentenced to seven years 2004-12-15
Anonymous (2 replies)

Nice to see that the government is out there stopping these dangerous criminals....

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DirecTV hacker sentenced to seven years 2004-12-15
Anonymous

On the comment about real criminals ..

What do you consider a real criminal? Does millions of dollars in losses not count as a criminal violation because its done by a techy and not a gang banging drug thug?

It's all about what some Govt official decided to go after....

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DirecTV hacker sentenced to seven years 2004-12-16
Anonymous

Let's just be happy no one used the term "cyber-terrorist"....

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DirecTV hacker sentenced to seven years 2004-12-16
Anonymous

From working for DTV for 8 months, this comes as no surprise. DTV loves to sue over even possesing "pirating" technology, even large corporation who employ smart card technology for Id/authentication purposes. I love it. They sent out something like 135,000 cease letter or be taken to court. You can...

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DirecTV hacker sentenced to seven years 2004-12-16
Anonymous

The loss estimates are quite rediculous. Anyone that uses a pirate card is unwilling to pay anyway. Maybe they are out a few pay per views a year, but these people dont want to pay

Receiving the signal costs DirectTV NOTHING.

They bloat the figures to raise the bar on punishment.

Doing so...

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DirecTV hacker sentenced to seven years 2004-12-19
Anonymous

Mr. Peluso come on do you really believe this? {Peluso says piracy is a serious business. "There's huge losses, really in the billions of the dollars, and they have to do with companies that provide important service to 20 million American families," he says. "These losses affect the financial viab...

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DirecTV hacker sentenced to seven years 2004-12-22
Anonymous

I love the rationialization process being applied here.

Fact is the guy committed a crime with obvious intention to profit. You can rationalize all you wish. He's going to do the time.

It does sound like he got a bit of a rough deal which means he should have spent some of the loot on better...

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DirecTV hacker sentenced to seven years 2006-10-02
Anonymous (2 replies)

I guess they did not lose any money, the company just did not collect any money from the people that got free programming that would not have ordered it anyway beacause they probably could not afford it. It's easy to say 'lose' instead of 'did not make'. (hehehehe)...

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Re: DirecTV hacker sentenced to seven years 2007-08-14
Fan of Justice

The only thing "criminal" here was BIG MONEY (read: DTV and company) paying off government officials to change satellite signal laws to the disadvantage of the individual and then using deceipt, coercion and false promises of cooperation to make a Guinea Pig of someone to scare the rest of us into f...

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Re: DirecTV hacker sentenced to seven years 2008-07-02
Intellectual Property (1 replies)

People who steal thoughts and ideas that come from organized minds are no different that someone who goes in to someones house and steals the houdeholders property. Remember when these cases are prosecuted, and an economic value is placed on the loss, the amount of the loss is deducted from the the ...

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Re: Re: DirecTV hacker sentenced to seven years 2008-09-15
Anonymous

Seriously? "steal thoughts". What an ignorant concept. Only a covetous a** could purge such a thought from the bowels of their mind.

You can't steal thoughts.

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