$500,000 judgement against FTA programmer // 2009-05-04 - ABA DSS

**tomcat01** · June 2nd, 2009

There was lawsuit brought by DN and NagraStar against Phillip Allison aka thebroken for providing illegal unauthorized reception of DN signals, writing software codes for FTA receivers to de scramble Dishnetwork system.

It was alleged that software written by Phillip Allison was publicly distributed on sites including: xxxxxx.com, xxxx.com, xxxxx.tk and xxxxx.com among others.

The judgment includes $500,000 along with various restrictions against Mr. Allison.

that sucks for him

**snakebite** · June 2nd, 2009

thanks for letting us know.

**saul_g** · June 2nd, 2009

Did Mr. Allison ended up paying money??

**creativegenius** · June 2nd, 2009

I think that the actual judgement papers were posted on the system here a while ago ...

Here they are (below), for anyone who wishes to review them.

Creative Genius

EHG · June 2nd, 2009

A judgement for monetary damages usually can only be enforced if the defendant has liquid assets that can be found. If the defendant has no assets that the old saying applies "you can't squeeze blood out of a turnip".I'm not sure about the changes in the bankrupcy laws but it used to be that one could include any judgements against them in a bankrupcy action with the exception of a judgement for personal fraud. Those who participate in activities that might elicit legal action from corporate giants who have there own legal staff should protect themselves financially. It is difficult to enforce a monetary judgement against a pauper.