John, Dish Network is a corporation. "Dish Network Corporation" or "Echostar Communications Corporation", same products, same people, just a name change.
As for the article, the line "the company that always should have been called DISH" doesn't make any since, because for the first 16 years of the company's life, it offered no DBS services - most of what they did was sell the old C-band satellite dishes in rural areas where there was nothing else, so therefore they were "echoing" the "stars" - hence, EchoStar.
3rdsun, there is no need to fight for free TV. It already exists. You don't get it with modified receivers or with receivers manufactured by you. You get free TV by sticking an antenna on your TV and watching whatever that brings in. If everyone stole the channels not provided freely, they simply wouldn't exist. Try to remember that when your modded boxes stop working entirely.
Oh, and by the way: the Dish Network Residential Service Agreement expressly prohibits modification or reverse engineering of Smart Cards (sections 4a, 4b), Receivers (section 4e), and Software (section 4h). Therefore, not only are you breaking copyright laws of the providers themselves, but you are also breaking copyright laws as they apply to Dish Network. Consider yourself warned.
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John, Dish Network is a corporation. "Dish Network Corporation" or "Echostar Communications Corporation", same products, same people, just a name change.
As for the article, the line "the company that always should have been called DISH" doesn't make any since, because for the first 16 years of the company's life, it offered no DBS services - most of what they did was sell the old C-band satellite dishes in rural areas where there was nothing else, so therefore they were "echoing" the "stars" - hence, EchoStar.
3rdsun, there is no need to fight for free TV. It already exists. You don't get it with modified receivers or with receivers manufactured by you. You get free TV by sticking an antenna on your TV and watching whatever that brings in. If everyone stole the channels not provided freely, they simply wouldn't exist. Try to remember that when your modded boxes stop working entirely.
Oh, and by the way: the Dish Network Residential Service Agreement expressly prohibits modification or reverse engineering of Smart Cards (sections 4a, 4b), Receivers (section 4e), and Software (section 4h). Therefore, not only are you breaking copyright laws of the providers themselves, but you are also breaking copyright laws as they apply to Dish Network. Consider yourself warned.