Supreme Court upholds satellite piracy conviction

By Glenn Wanamaker

OTTAWA – The Supreme Court of Canada has dismissed an application by two Quebec men seeking to appeal their conviction on charges of satellite TV-signal piracy. As is customary custom, the Court did not give any reasons for refusing to hear the appeal. Its ruling brings to an end a long judicial battle that began in 1998 when the two men, Jacques D’Argy of Drummondville and Richard Thériault of nearby St-Nicéphore, were first charged with selling and personally using decoding equipment to access U.S. satellite TV signals from DirecTV. The case has been before the courts ever since. The ruling...