From OTHER articles, the story goes like this. Company A develops a new very secure card. Uncle B takes some of this very confidential material home ton continue working on it (legitimately takes it home, apparently). The 19 year old (Mr. D) copies the material from his uncle's desk, and emails copies to internet chatrooms for hacking. The material was clearly labeled as CONFIDENTIAL and Proprietary. The others involved then received and distributed this new SmartCard information packet. They are screwed.
Yep, I’d agree with that.
I don’t understand much about satellite TV. I’m sure it’s expensive to lease satellites, or position the satellites themselves, or whatever they do. I’m sure they have a lot of people they have to answer to when the subscriber numbers start to slip and there are reports about information on how to get around subscribing. They have families they support based on the viability of their company.
My point was that if they had kept their mouth shut and kept a low profile, nobody would care if a dozen or so people got free service. They DO care when you start making their product available to everyone else for free. That’s guaranteed.
The telco’s were famous for that. You could get “free” service for years if you kept your mouth shut - too much trouble to go after you. Write an article encouraging it or market a device that enabled it and they would hit you hard. They had no choice.