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They owned the devices they were hacking with their feeds. That’s why the hack worked to begin with: they controlled the code on the cards.



I’d claim they didn’t own the cards. When they send out new cards to replace the H cards, they didn’t have us send them back. They abandoned the property and no longer can claim ownership.


Since they abandoned the cards in part by disabling them, I'm not sure the Law of the Briny Deep does a lot of lifting for you here.


Besides being abandoned when they upgraded. You actually owned the card because they came with receivers when you purchased them from brick and Mortar stores. No agreement on the purchase. You called to activate them. Satellite providers also fried the receivers as well by burning all writes on flash memory that held the firmware. So that $500 directivo receiver could get hosed during an exploit.


The cards literally had "this is the property of NDS and must be surrendered upon request" printed on them. You're reaching.


That doesn’t mean anything if paid $200 for a receiver at best buy and it came with a card. It is legally mine.


Turns out it isn't.


1st sale doctrine says it’s mine.




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