{"id":95,"date":"2003-07-18T08:46:20","date_gmt":"2003-07-18T16:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/?p=95"},"modified":"2003-07-18T08:46:20","modified_gmt":"2003-07-18T16:46:20","slug":"directv-out-of-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/2003\/07\/18\/directv-out-of-control\/","title":{"rendered":"DirecTV out of control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=03\/07\/17\/190232&#038;mode=thread&#038;tid=126\">This story<\/a> reported on Slashdot is pretty incredible.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>DirecTV is suing anyone known to have purchased a smartcard programmer, regardless of whether or not they&#8217;re actually using the device to enable stealing their programming. They&#8217;re sending out letters &#038; when people call to clear up the confusion, DirecTV is demanding a $3500 settlement as well as the programming device. They&#8217;ve filed 9000 federal lawsuits against alleged pirates thus far.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This sounds just plain crazy.  I think <a href=\"http:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/comments.pl?sid=71490&#038;cid=6465347\">this poster<\/a> has the right idea though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story reported on Slashdot is pretty incredible. DirecTV is suing anyone known to have purchased a smartcard programmer, regardless of whether or not they&#8217;re actually using the device to enable stealing their programming. They&#8217;re sending out letters &#038; when people call to clear up the confusion, DirecTV is demanding a $3500 settlement as well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techie"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TCqO-1x","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}