30 July 2003 - DirecTV
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DirecTV has shown the path: Legal threats with slight backing
can extort money even from the innocent. The next step is to
remove the slight backing and call it a business model. Now there’s
the way to put the Nigerian spam scammers out of business—do the
same thing better.
clue:
DirecTV is suing people who bought smart card programmers which
can be used to pirate satellite TV, and they aren’t bothering to
collect evidence on what the devices were actually used for.
give me a clue so sweet and true
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