[Hodar]

Activation of a Dish Network account means enabling your smart card. The above is from the top of the residential agreement...

And if I were a hacker, and I never bothered Dish about their card, I have neither agreed to their terms, nor forced them to activate the card. Hence, I would have never have opened a dish account. Again, it's like saying that once you buy my car; you must forever purchase my gas at whatever price I chose to sell it at; or else sell/toss the car away.

[RoughDobermann]

Since you don't own the card, it's THEIR property. Sure you can toss the receiver and dish/LNBs whenever you want. Dish basically gives away the hardware anyway; they want the monthly programming charges and a nice long contract term...

FWIW and IIRC, no one has ever emulated Dish Network's smart card firmware (i.e., a cardless receiver), but I think it's been done with DirecTV.