With their current track record Dish needs some better legal minds to work with them .Either they got bad advise re what could be proven or they over reached in this suit.
But they aren't doing well with any of their legal positions so I would look to add a New legal department ASAP otherwise these legal blunders and fees will make some serious dents in their position.
A part of me wants to agree with this, but the other part of me says, maybe they shouldn't get themselves in so many bad situations to begin with. It seems like most of the lawsuits, Dish is on the wrong end, and therefore, that's why they continue to be on the "wrong end" win the verdict comes down. Sometimes, it doesn't matter who you have as your legal team. When you dig yourself a whole, sometimes it caves in, sometimes it's too deep, and sometimes the rope just isn't strong enough to pull you out.
I think this is the one lawsuit they should have been able to bring home a verdict, but I guess at some point, when things just aren't going your way, they really don't go your way.
It's really too bad, you would think they would have focused more on the release of the data and tried to tie it all together, such as the "bonus" the hacker received, supposedly at or around the same time when the code was originally released on the net.
This would have been a nice win to perhaps offset the Tivo settlement/verdict.