Echostar v NDS case - Documents Available Here 19th March 2008 |
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Here are the main electronically file files for the long running Echostar V NDS case. Echostar is suing NDS (Provider of BSkyB Condition Access service) for $1 Billion for damages for piracy and copyright infringement of the Echostar Viewing card codes and for aiding the distribution and supply of pirate Echostar viewing cards for the Echostar owned Dish TV. The case was first submitted in 2002 as an intervention into the Canal + V NDS case in 2002. However after a purchase by News Corp of a Canal + Italian satellite TV business that had been heavily pirated the Canal + case was sealed with prejudice. Now some of the same evidence has re appeared in the Echostar documents. We offer this to allow interested parties to read for themselves some of the claims and statements as this case could lead to other legal claims from other companies or shareholders in UK Pay TV operations that are suffering or have suffered from viewing card piracy. If found against NDS then the use of Conditional Access services could be affected. Documents available: |
