Dish Network seeks big bucks in battle
Bloomberg News
Published May 7, 2008 at 8 p.m.
Dish Network Corp. told jurors they may award the satellite-TV company as much as $1 billion in damages over claims that News Corp.'s NDS Group subsidiary used hackers to crack its access- card codes.
Dish lawyer T. Wade Welch argued that the Douglas County- based company should be awarded at least $181 million because it was forced to pay about $90 million to replace the cards, required for subscribers to receive programs, and lost an additional $90 million in profits.
As the federal court case in California wrapped up before going to the jury, Darin Snyder, a lawyer for NDS, told jurors Dish had failed to show that the hackers who broke its security code were linked to NDS.
The evidence showed that the hacker who posted on the Internet a method to crack the code was linked to an Ontario-based piracy group not linked to NDS, Snyder said.
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