Dish Network paid NDS $18.9 million, ending a nearly 10-year...
Dish Network paid NDS $18.9 million, ending a nearly 10-year legal battle capped by the Supreme Court rejecting Dish’s petition for review earlier this year. The Supreme Court upheld an appeals court decision awarding NDS $17.9 million in attorney’s fees.…
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The fees were granted by U.S. District Judge David Carter in Los Angeles, following a month-long trial in 2008 in which a jury awarded Dish $1,500, not the $1.6 billion it sought from NDS for allegedly hiring hackers to crack its encryption system. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 2010 upheld Carter’s decision, awarding NDS $17.9 million for fees and releasing $4.3 million in NDS funds held in escrow. Dish filed the petition with the Supreme Court in October. The payment ends a “long drawn-out process” in which NDS “vehemently denied” the piracy claims given that the company is a “global leader in the fight against pay-TV piracy,” NDS Executive Chairman Abe Peled said in a statement. A Dish spokesman declined to comment on the settlement.