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Originally Posted by mike123abc  Remember the headline says $97 million, how much is the operations worth. Dish may collect less than a million. Essentially the company just threw the keys to Dish and said it is now yours. Dish just got the assets of the company, since that was all the company had to pay the $97 million judgement. |
It doesn't matter. It really was not about getting cash. What Charlie really wanted was for Freetech to be vanquished and for this judgment to serve as a warning to any other companies who may be thinking of providing the means for people to obtain Dish Network services illegally. He just wants the practice stopped, so the money doesn't bleed out.
Do any of you remember back on 2002 or there abouts when Charlie publically accused Direct TV of deliberately being slow to address and fix its pirating problem in order to hurt Dish? I loved the days when Charlie would shoot from the lip. Personally, I think Charlie was right. Soon after, Direct TV did finally move to do an access card swap, but, man, there really were slow to get there after years of what looked like a tolerance of pirating.