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For unauthorized broadcasting in general, see Pirate broadcasting. A broadcast signal intrusion is the hijacking of broadcast signals of radio, television stations, cable television broadcast feeds or satellite signals without permission or licence. Hijacking incidents have involved local TV and radio stations as well as cable and national ...
Ironically, the NDS Group were accused (in several lawsuits) by Canal+ (dismissed as part of an otherwise-unrelated corporate takeover deal) and Echostar (now Dish Network) of hacking the Nagra encryption and releasing the information on the internet. The jury awarded EchoStar $45.69 actual damages (one month's average subscription fee) in Claim 3.
Captain Midnight. On April 27, 1986, American electrical engineer and business owner John R. MacDougall (using the pseudonym " Captain Midnight ") jammed the Home Box Office (HBO) satellite signal on Galaxy 1 during a showing of the film The Falcon and the Snowman. The message, broadcast for four and a half minutes, was seen by the eastern half ...
Dish Network, one of the largest television providers in the United States, confirmed on Tuesday that a previously disclosed “network outage” was the result of a cybersecurity breach that ...
CBS subsidiary CNET was set to hand Dish Network a "Best of CES" award for its revolutionary Hopper DVR. The problem here is that CBS and other broadcasters are in legal fisticuffs with Dish ...
In the US, both DirecTV and Dish Network direct-broadcast satellite systems use digital encryption standards for controlling access to programming. DirecTV uses VideoGuard, a system designed by NDS. DirecTV has been cracked in the past, which led to an abundance of cracked smartcards being available on the black market.
On the night of November 22, 1987, the television signals of two stations in Chicago, Illinois, were hijacked, briefly sending a pirate broadcast of an unidentified person wearing a Max Headroom mask and costume to thousands of home viewers. [1][2][3][4] The first incident took place during the sports segment of independent TV station WGN-TV 's ...
DISH Network L.L.C., often referred to as DISH, an abbreviation for Digital Sky Highway [1], is an American provider of satellite television and IPTV services and ...