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1. This could fan out to be very bad in the end for Dish customers such as myself. I can see various senario's in which none are good, for Dish nor the end customer who uses the product.

I am going to expect a agreement with Dish and Tivo while Dish networks jack there prices even higher to help pay off the ludacris amount I am Tivo will demand for rights.

Then again if you think about it Dish does deserve this punishment, it's just to bad the end user will be suffering even more.

Well time to go unplug and hack my Dish DVR, thank Tivo.

Posted at 6:14AM on Aug 18th 2006 by Concerned Customer

2. IANAL, but as I understand it, it's not even close to "once and for all". This is a "final" judgement at the district court level, where they use an odd definition of "final" which means "final, unless you feel like appealing to a higher court".

In the US Federal courts system, there are a bunch more hurdles left for this case - Echostar can appeal to a 3-judge panel of the circuit court; if either party dislikes that result, they can appeal to the entire circuit court, and then if either party dislikes that result, they can appeal to the Supreme Court.

Posted at 10:25AM on Aug 18th 2006 by Bill