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DirecTV Hacker Is First Person Convicted Under DMCA
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Gilmore)
Wed Sep 24 11:57:14 2003
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Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 03:41:44 -0700
From: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>
http://www.nbc4.tv/technology/2502786/detail.html
DirecTV Hacker Is First Person Convicted Under Digital Millennium Copyright Act
Man Faces 30 Years In Prison, Millions In Fines For Selling Illegal Hardware
UPDATED: 1:51 p.m. PDT September 22, 2003
...
Spertus said Whitehead -- also known as Jungle Mike -- paid a
co-conspirator $250 a month to continually update software to circumvent
the latest DirecTV security measures. Whitehead then used the software to
create and sell modified DirecTV access cards, the prosecutor said.
The conduct violated the DMCA, which bars trafficking in technology
primarily designed to get around security measures to access a copyrighted
work.
...
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material may be made. (I added that last sentence myself.)
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