Dish Distants-Final Chapter

The Florida Southern District Court has decreed:

ORDER OF PERMANENT INJUNCTION
THIS CAUSE is before the Court upon remand by the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Pursuant to the Eleventh Circuit mandate [DE-995], remanding this case to this Court with instructions to enter a nationwide permanent injunction pursuant to the Satellite Home Viewer Act of 1988, as amended by the Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act of 1999, it is

ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED that, effective December 1, 2006, Defendants Echostar Communications Corporation (d/b/a DISH Network), EchoStar Satellite Corporation, Satellite Communications Operating Corporation and DirectSat Corporation (collectively “Echostar”), their officers, agents, servants, employees, and attorneys, and those persons in active concert or participation with Echostar are hereby PERMANENTLY ENJOINED AND RESTRAINED from the secondary transmission, pursuant to the statutory license set forth in Section 119, Title 17, United States Code, of a performance or display of a word embodied in a primary transmission of any network station affiliated with ABC, Inc., CBS Broadcasting, Inc., Fox Broadcasting Company, or National Broadcasting Co. For the purposes of this permanent injunction, the terms “secondary transmission,” “primary transmission,” “primary network station,” and “network station” shall have the meanings given those terms in Section 119, Title 17, United States Code.

DONE AND ORDERED in Chambers at Fort Lauderdale, Broward County, Florida, this 20th day of October, 2006.

So Ron, does that mean you want to join the masses?

What about the third group, RVers who have an affidavit on file with Dish and are allowed to subscribe to any/all of the 4 national feeds? We've switched to StarChoice but we used to be in that group and there are still a lot of people who do just that. It's available to RVers and truckers who file the affidavit that the receiver is in a liveaboard vehicle and attach a copy of the registration.

According to my Dish network supplier, I live at an address Alpine Texas. Where there's a will....

JPL
San Nicolas de Ibarra
Jalisco Mexico