Dish controversies

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• In response to DISH’s requests, Judge Hughes’ order requires ChitramTV to stop distributing the broadcaster’s channels (or the works airing on those channels) in the United States.

• While the judgement stands, immediately after it was issued Judge Hughes withdrew the entry of default against Dinesh Vigneswaran, the only individual to be personally identified by DISH.

• This week a Texas court handed down a $31m judgment and a broad injunction that requires ChitramTV and resellers to cease-and-desist, third-party server companies to terminate services, and registries and registrars to disable domains.

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• Separately, Dish and Sling filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission in Washington, D.C. to block imports of Peloton, NordicTrack and Mirror products into the U.S.

• The lawsuits, filed Tuesday in federal court in Texas and Delaware on behalf of Sling TV, accuses Peloton, NordicTrack-owner Icon Health & Fitness Inc. and Mirror-owner Lululemon using Dish’s patented technology

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• DISH Technologies LLC and Sling TV LLC (collectively, DISH) filed complaints against Peloton Interactive Inc. on Tuesday in the Eastern District of Texas and ICON Health & Fitness Inc., as well as lululemon athletica Inc. (lululemon) and Curiouser Products Inc. (doing business as MIRROR) on Wednesday in the District of Delaware, alleging that the defendants infringed DISH’s streaming-related patents in their respective fitness streaming services.

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• The new infringement suit was brought in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas (C.A. No.: 6:19-cv-719). The defendants are accused of infringing four of IFT's patents:

• TV broadcaster DISH Network has filed a lawsuit in a Texas court targeting the operators of Canada-based 'pirate' IPTV supplier Voodoo IPTV.

• “The Voodoo IPTV pirate streaming service is, and has been, retransmitting the DISH Programming without authorization from DISH. The DISH Programming was received from DISH’s satellite television service without authorization,” the complaint alleges.

Company response

• Denial — Dish

  Dish said it “respectfully disagrees” with its liability in the judgment.

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• Dish allegedly made millions of unlawful telemarketing calls, as well as being responsible for millions of calls made by retailers marketing Dish products and services.

• Dish Network has settled its case with the US Department of Justice, resulting in a $210 million penalty for the satellite TV provider for placing millions of telemarketing calls that violated the FTC’s rules.

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• DISH claims that an individual called Lisa Crawford along with business entities including LC One LLC, LC Pryme Enterprises LLC, LC Pryme Holdings LLC, LC Pryme One Enterprises LLC, and several others, ignored the orders of the Court in the previous cases by continuing to breach the broadcaster’s rights.

• US-broadcaster DISH Network is suing a former reseller of IPTV services SET TV and Simply-TV in a Florida court.

• “Just like the SET TV and Simply-TV pirate streaming services, the new Pirate IPTV Services being facilitated by Crawford and the Pirate IPTV Entities are, and have been retransmitting DISH programming received from DISH’s satellite television service without authorization from DISH,” the complaint reads.