Thread: What happened to Coolsat?!?!

Hello, I recently picked up a Coolsat 7100 pvr off ebay and except for no ability to edit my satellite list I am very happy with it.

Thinking that maybe they addressed this in a later version of software I went to coolsatusa.com only to find one of those lame placeholder websites that the domain name traders put up.

Does anyone know what happened to Coolsat's website? Did the company go under or did the site move? If the worst has happened and coolsat is no more does anyone know where I might be able to download coolsat software still?

Coolsat is no more.

Iceberg gave me the latest firmware for my Coolsat 7000 awhile back...you might ask him if he has the 7100 firmware.

Here's a c/p from another site , to bring you up to date:
Freetech says sorry and... // 2009-10-20

DISH Gets Its Apology

Back in late August we reported a significant victory for the DISH Network and the DBS platform’s security provider, NagraStar, as the duo won a mega ($106 million total) judgment against “free-to-air” provider Freetech. Freetech, as you might recall, was snatching the DISH signal and redistributing it – at significant profit – via its receivers.

The U.S. District Court of Northern California didn’t think too much of that and slapped a $97 million judgment against Freetech, $3 million against each of its three top officers plus it barred the company from reopening operations anywhere in the world. But money doesn’t always drive the point home. DISH wanted an apology as well.

Says DISH lawyer in the case, Chad Hagan of the Houston law firm Hagan Noll & Boyle, LLC, DISH hopes that any other would-be pirates “will see this and it will be a reminder that DISH is out there and will come after people” who try to steal its signal.

So here is the official Freetech apology to DISH:

“Freetech, Inc., the South San Francisco based importer and distributor of the Coolsat line of Free-to-Air Satellite receivers announces that it will dissolve and cease operations as part of its agreement to resolve a lawsuit filed by DISH Network, EchoStar Technologies and NagraStar (collectively “DISH Network”).DISH Network filed suit against Freetech in December of 2007 asserting that Coolsat receivers were primarily designed and used for the piracy of DISH Network’s satellite television programming. Freetech acknowledges that Coolsat receivers were used for this purpose and apologizes for any harm caused to DISH Network. As part of the resolution of the lawsuit, the Court entered a consent judgment finding in favor of DISH Network, EchoStar and NagraStar in the aggregate amount of $106,000,000.00 and entering a permanent injunction against Freetech and its officers and certain employees.

Freetech has also agreed to cooperate with DISH Network in its current and future anti-piracy actions.”

106,000,000.00 wow,it sucks to be them. but then when you steal what do you expect.

Freetrech of coolsat USA is the importer coolsat Korea or wherever they are made DID nothing wrong or that is what I have read.

Which might mean that Coolsat could find another importer.

Originally Posted by Crocodile Locke

Iceberg gave me the latest firmware for my Coolsat 7000 awhile back...you might ask him if he has the 7100 firmware.

I dont have the 7100 software

4/5/6, 7000 and 8000...not anything else

Originally Posted by Cband55

Freetrech of coolsat USA is the importer coolsat Korea or wherever they are made DID nothing wrong or that is what I have read.

Yes, if you look at it on paper they did nothing wrong as the receivers they where manufacturing did have a ligitiment purpose.

The issue is that at one point they realized that their receivers could be used for other purposes, and instead of redesigning their equipment so it could not be used for other purposes, they continued to manufacture and sell their product.

There are also rumors that they where the ones writing and distributing the Illegal software using in their products.