Super Channel injunction demands end to sale of pirate TV devices at Best Buy, Staples

EDMONTON — Allarco Entertainment, owner of Canadian pay-TV provider Super Channel, announced this morning it has filed an application for an injunction with the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta, asking the court to order four Canadian retailers to stop selling set-top boxes designed to illegally pirate TV programming. The four retailers named in the injunction application are Best Buy, Staples, London Drugs and Canada Computers. Super Channel has previously filed a lawsuit in 2019 against these retailers, a suit which is still pending. When the company filed its lawsuit, it backed up its claims with videotape evidence of the...