Framed Again


Mark Furman apparently followed O.J. Simpson to Miami, snuck into his house, and planted a bootlegged DirecTV system.

A federal judge in Miami has ordered former football superstar O J Simpson to pay a $25,000 fine to the satellite television firm DirecTV for using unauthorised devices to receive its programming.

In December 2001, police and a DirecTV representative entered Simpson's home in Miami, after receiving information indicating that he had been receiving the satellite company's signal without paying for the service.

Simpson, for his part, insisted that he had not stolen the company's signal.


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He can always claim it doesn't fit.

Posted by: Steve Scudder at July 28, 2005 9:54 AM

I just saw a report that said he is on a "search for the real bootleggers".

Posted by: CAshane at July 28, 2005 11:10 AM

How can one "steal" a signal? It is broadcast planet-wide. If I develop the smarts to descramble it without the copyrighted circuitry I think I would have the right to use their signal. How would they know anyway?

Posted by: Rhett at July 28, 2005 2:46 PM

"If I develop the smarts to descramble it without the copyrighted circuitry I think I would have the right to use their signal."

Not to debate whether you should or do have the right to use the signal, the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) makes it a felony to defeat any encryption of copyrighted material -- no matter how lame the encrytion is.

Posted by: bob reynolds at July 28, 2005 5:36 PM

Not to mention that I very, very much doubt that OJ designed and built his own decoder.

Posted by: markm at July 29, 2005 4:38 PM

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