Cable / Telecom News

UPDATE: DirecTV sues Canadian

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. – DirecTV has filed a lawsuit in a Canadian court against a well known signal thief who flouted a permanent injunction order imposed last year to stop selling piracy technology used to steal DirecTV programming, the American DBS service announced today. The complaint alleges that Elio Gino D'Amario, of Hamilton, Ontario, has continued to sell pirate devices on his web site in violation of a permanent injunction entered against him in a U.S. District Court and the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in July 2004. The complaint against D'Amario was the result of an investigation conducted by...