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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on DirecTV anti-piracy case thrown out, smart card programmers breath easier]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/directv-anti-piracy-case-thrown-out-smart-card-programmers-brea/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/directv-anti-piracy-case-thrown-out-smart-card-programmers-brea/</guid><description><![CDATA[Shouldn't it be "programmers breathE easier"? Sorry, I'm just OCD about spelling and grammar.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Drew Hatfield]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 12th 2007 7:47PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on DirecTV anti-piracy case thrown out, smart card programmers breath easier]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/directv-anti-piracy-case-thrown-out-smart-card-programmers-brea/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/directv-anti-piracy-case-thrown-out-smart-card-programmers-brea/</guid><description><![CDATA[You mean you're an ass.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[akijikan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 12th 2007 7:51PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on DirecTV anti-piracy case thrown out, smart card programmers breath easier]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/directv-anti-piracy-case-thrown-out-smart-card-programmers-brea/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/directv-anti-piracy-case-thrown-out-smart-card-programmers-brea/</guid><description><![CDATA[I'm with you on this.  Maybe the e is missing to counterbalance the extra r in "lesser chargers".]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sandy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 13th 2007 4:39AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on DirecTV anti-piracy case thrown out, smart card programmers breath easier]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/directv-anti-piracy-case-thrown-out-smart-card-programmers-brea/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/directv-anti-piracy-case-thrown-out-smart-card-programmers-brea/</guid><description><![CDATA[ha ha you said ass]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[jonathan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 12th 2007 8:10PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on DirecTV anti-piracy case thrown out, smart card programmers breath easier]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/directv-anti-piracy-case-thrown-out-smart-card-programmers-brea/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/directv-anti-piracy-case-thrown-out-smart-card-programmers-brea/</guid><description><![CDATA[ha ha so did you]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 12th 2007 8:13PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on DirecTV anti-piracy case thrown out, smart card programmers breath easier]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/directv-anti-piracy-case-thrown-out-smart-card-programmers-brea/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/directv-anti-piracy-case-thrown-out-smart-card-programmers-brea/</guid><description><![CDATA[lol]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Keim]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 12th 2007 8:53PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on DirecTV anti-piracy case thrown out, smart card programmers breath easier]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/directv-anti-piracy-case-thrown-out-smart-card-programmers-brea/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/directv-anti-piracy-case-thrown-out-smart-card-programmers-brea/</guid><description><![CDATA[I received a threatening letter from good ol' DAVE for buying a smart card programmer, and I promptly threw it (letter) away.  Fucking Paypal caving into pressure from DirectTV...needless to say they never followed through with it.  Fuck DirectTV. It is like saying since I bought a DVD burner I must be using it to copy dvd's....<br><br>Oh, and I was I using that smart car programmer for pirating?  No, but since that model was popular with the pirates and sold so well, there were always crazy deals on it...good consumerism can fuck you sometimes...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Azsori]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 12th 2007 8:24PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on DirecTV anti-piracy case thrown out, smart card programmers breath easier]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/directv-anti-piracy-case-thrown-out-smart-card-programmers-brea/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/directv-anti-piracy-case-thrown-out-smart-card-programmers-brea/</guid><description><![CDATA[Yea, I remember receiving the similar letter from Echostar a long time ago for buying a SmartCard programmer (to test teh smartcard authorization feature in Win2k) from an online store which was later raided by the police and then closed permanently...  Just threw the letter into garbage and never heard from EchoStar again. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[AlexK]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 12th 2007 10:19PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on DirecTV anti-piracy case thrown out, smart card programmers breath easier]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/directv-anti-piracy-case-thrown-out-smart-card-programmers-brea/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/directv-anti-piracy-case-thrown-out-smart-card-programmers-brea/</guid><description><![CDATA[TAKE THAT CORPORATE AMERICA!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[DS]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 12th 2007 8:39PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on DirecTV anti-piracy case thrown out, smart card programmers breath easier]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/directv-anti-piracy-case-thrown-out-smart-card-programmers-brea/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/directv-anti-piracy-case-thrown-out-smart-card-programmers-brea/</guid><description><![CDATA[I've not heard of any pirating of Directv signals for a couple of years now. Heck when they rolled out  the P4 card that scene pretty much came to an end. If anyone has figured anything out they are keeping it to themselves. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[CaptCaveman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 12th 2007 8:42PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on DirecTV anti-piracy case thrown out, smart card programmers breath easier]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/directv-anti-piracy-case-thrown-out-smart-card-programmers-brea/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/directv-anti-piracy-case-thrown-out-smart-card-programmers-brea/</guid><description><![CDATA[Exactly, they are keeping it to themselves.  Nothing that is encrypted cannot be decrypted.  There are DTV hacks, it's just the industry moved on.... FTA is all the rage these day because it offers a broader array of programming and has much less legal vulnerabilities because it has a 100% legitimate purpose as well as a less then legal illegitimate side purpose.  Heck even Engadget has covered at least one FTA receiver, the Lyngbox.   ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[KC]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 12th 2007 11:36PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on DirecTV anti-piracy case thrown out, smart card programmers breath easier]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/directv-anti-piracy-case-thrown-out-smart-card-programmers-brea/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/directv-anti-piracy-case-thrown-out-smart-card-programmers-brea/</guid><description><![CDATA[You're overlooking the fact that the 9th Circuit is the most overturned appeals court in the nation. Greater than 90% of their rulings get overturned. So there's a 90% chance if DirecTV takes this to the Supreme Court that they'll get the ruling they desire.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Odd TSi]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 12th 2007 8:51PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on DirecTV anti-piracy case thrown out, smart card programmers breath easier]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/directv-anti-piracy-case-thrown-out-smart-card-programmers-brea/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/directv-anti-piracy-case-thrown-out-smart-card-programmers-brea/</guid><description><![CDATA[USSC overturned around 80% of the 9th circuit decisions.  But out of around 6000 cases requesting certiorari from the SC, only around 150 are heard each year.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher Yang]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 13th 2007 5:45PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on DirecTV anti-piracy case thrown out, smart card programmers breath easier]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/directv-anti-piracy-case-thrown-out-smart-card-programmers-brea/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/directv-anti-piracy-case-thrown-out-smart-card-programmers-brea/</guid><description><![CDATA[Yes, but *you* are forgetting that the overturned decisions are usually of the "crazy agreeing with the American Criminal Liberties Union" kind, where this is of the "procedural error/misapplied statue" kind.  I predict they don't get it any further.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[James]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 19th 2007 7:30PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on DirecTV anti-piracy case thrown out, smart card programmers breath easier]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/directv-anti-piracy-case-thrown-out-smart-card-programmers-brea/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/directv-anti-piracy-case-thrown-out-smart-card-programmers-brea/</guid><description><![CDATA[Smart card programmers can be used for legitimate hobby purposes, as well as security research.<br><br>What if someone wants to make their own smart cards for access to their own video surveillance equipment?<br><br>The idea that owning buying one is breaking the law is ridiculous.  This is like those stupid ass War on Drugs laws in some states that say bongs are illegal.<br><br>What next?  Buy a crowbar at Home Depot and get slapped with attempted burglary charges?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sean O]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 12th 2007 10:08PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on DirecTV anti-piracy case thrown out, smart card programmers breath easier]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/directv-anti-piracy-case-thrown-out-smart-card-programmers-brea/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/directv-anti-piracy-case-thrown-out-smart-card-programmers-brea/</guid><description><![CDATA["No officer, I'm Gordon Freeman! From Lambda lab... yeah, F-R-E-E-M-*kabong*"]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kevin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 13th 2007 11:33AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on DirecTV anti-piracy case thrown out, smart card programmers breath easier]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/directv-anti-piracy-case-thrown-out-smart-card-programmers-brea/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/directv-anti-piracy-case-thrown-out-smart-card-programmers-brea/</guid><description><![CDATA[The 9th circus, errr, circuit is the most overturned fed court in the country.   Look for this to be overruled in a Supreme Court near you, real soon now.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[notYou]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 12th 2007 10:30PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on DirecTV anti-piracy case thrown out, smart card programmers breath easier]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/directv-anti-piracy-case-thrown-out-smart-card-programmers-brea/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/directv-anti-piracy-case-thrown-out-smart-card-programmers-brea/</guid><description><![CDATA[dave started the same tactics that the riaa is doing now.. extorting people with settlements.. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[WETFOLLOW]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 17th 2007 11:52PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on DirecTV anti-piracy case thrown out, smart card programmers breath easier]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/directv-anti-piracy-case-thrown-out-smart-card-programmers-brea/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/directv-anti-piracy-case-thrown-out-smart-card-programmers-brea/</guid><description><![CDATA[This brings back memories, emulation was fascinating! I received the letter from the initial wave. Kept it for conversation, :). Sweated out the day that Dave filed 10,000(?) lawsuits as the 2 yr statute of limitations ran out on discovery from their first big fulfillment bust. I think my assigned lawfirm told Dave to f off. No summons, hehe. <br><br>Free and clear u think? Not hardly, got stuck with a pile of p4 and p5 at the end, I paid... lol :)]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[gdog]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 25th 2007 11:25PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>