Reply #120: she is paying for the service, just using alternative hardware

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

The whole setup looks likes something Bruce Willis should be hunched with wire cutters - swearing and sweating profusely, but it is legal because the original smartcard has not been hacked in any way. The decoded satellite stream is MPEG, no need to confine it to a proprietary PVR.

Her attitude is that in a world where the average consumer owns FIVE multimedia devices the world doesn't need a better DVD player it needs universal digital formats that will work on your iPod, blackberry, computer, gaming console and network connected TV.