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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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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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