From Wired…
SAN DIEGO — Christopher Tarnovsky feels vindicated. The software engineer and former satellite-TV pirate has been on the hot seat for five years, accused of helping his former employer, a Rupert Murdoch company, sabotage a rival to gain the top spot in the global pay-TV wars.
But two weeks ago a jury in the civil lawsuit against that employer, NDS Group, largely cleared the company — and by extension Tarnovsky — of piracy, finding NDS guilty of only a single incident of stealing satellite signals, for which Dish was awarded $1,500 in damages.
“I knew this was going to come,” Tarnovsky says. “They didn’t have any proof or evidence.”
The trial was years in the making, yet raised more questions than it answered. It came down to testimony between admitted pirates on both sides who accused each other of lying. Now that it’s over Tarnovsky, who was fired by NDS last year, is eager to tell his side of the story.
Tip of the hat to Adam for this one
[tags]satellite hacking[/tags]
