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DMCA indictments for DirectTV hackers
Posted by James Grimmelmann on Thursday, February 13 @ 13:46:37 EST Digital Millennium Copyright Act
A federal grand jury has handed down indictments of seventeen people on various charges relating to manufacturing and distributing devices and software to tap into pay satellite TV. Six of the indictments also included DMCA charges. So far, the government is 0-for-1 on criminal charges under the DMCA, after the Skylarov acquittal.

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