What to do when you receive Daves letter regarding illegal usage

[mdeven]

What exactly does the letter say?
Mark

[RoyBoy]

What exactly does the letter say?
Mark
Use search feature and type in Letters from Dave. You'll receive some information. Someone submitted a thread (Can't remember title) that contains all kind of information, to include how to fight Dave letters, from lawyers. I recommend, if you received a letter from Dave search all the threads for the past 45 days in General Discusions. I hope you find it! Let me know if you do.

[mdeven]

There have been alot of cases.... Search this forum for some info.... Also, I suggest that you search other sites as well....
Mark

[RoyBoy]

I found the thread and it's titled DTV Losses, submitted by Cojones, 3 weeks ago. There is a site that you can click on and it will take you alot of excellent comments about these fucking letters from legal experts. Good luck!

[mdeven]

Whatever happens, stick to that story....
Mark

[SirDrahcir]

and bought it for a friend that was here from South America for a couple of weeks I used my CC to order the stuff for him online and he gave me the cash because he didn't have a CC

Hey aj1174, maybe this link will help a little. It was posted on this web site once before, but I wasn't able to find it tonight. I hope this helps...


Stanford School of Law Web Site for helping People getting letters from Dave (http://www.directvdefense.org/)
Welcome to DirecTVDefense.org
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Stanford Center for Internet & Society Cyberlaw Clinic

What's Going on Here?
Smartcards are an important, and legal, branch of emerging technology, but satellite TV giant DirecTV has launched a legal campaign that threatens smartcard researchers and innovators. Over the past few years, the company has sent hundreds of thousands of demand letters and filed nearly 9,000 federal lawsuits in response to the mere purchase of smart card readers, emulators, unloopers, reprogrammers, bootloaders, and blockers. The satellite TV company accuses techies – some of whom threw out their televisions in favor of the Internet long ago – of using these devices to illegally intercept its signals. But the smart card readers and their various derivatives are capable of so much more: they secure computer networks, enable user-based identification, and further scientific discovery.

People who intercept DirectTV’s satellite signal are breaking the law. However, DirecTV’s cease and desist letter campaign does not distinguish the legitimate users from the thieves. This website is meant as a legal resource for the legitimate computer scientists, technology workers, and hobbyists who are being harassed by DirecTV's no holds-barred slash-and-burn legal strategy. This site provides scientists, researchers, innovators and their lawyers with the resources necessary to fight DirecTV and protect their right to own and use multi-purpose technology for its legal applications – and without fear of reprisal.



The Latest:
New Class Action v. DirecTV

A group of California lawyers has filed a new class action lawsuit against DirecTV alleging vioaltions of Federal Racketeering (RICO) Laws based on their current End User enforcement campaign.

South Carolina Court Dismisses DTV Cases based on "mere possession"

Check out the new postings on the Case Files page, especially the McKay case where the Court dismissed DirecTV's case because they failed to show that the Defendant did anything more than purchase smart card technology. Without evidence that a Defendant also had subscribed to DTV, had a DTV Integrated Receiver/Decoder, and a DTV satellite dish, DTV could not sustain their case.

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