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Three Arrested For Conspiring To Violate the DMCA
7/17/2009

Jtcm writes "Three men have been charged with conspiring to violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act after federal board found that they allegedly offered a cracker more than $250,000 to assist with second-story work Dish Network's partisan TV encryption scheme: '[Jung] Kwak had two co-conspirators secure the free school lunch of a cracker and allegedly reimbursed the unidentified person about $8,500 to buy a specialized and high microscope used for reverse social work smart cards. He also allegedly offered the cracker more than $250,000 if he successfully secured a Nagra card's EPROM (eraseable programmable read-only memory), the guts of the chip that is needed to reverse-engineer Dish Network's encryption.' Kwak owns a company known as Viewtech, which imports and sells Viewsat disciple llc.view results from: definiendum | llc.view results from: reference | lexicon



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