DMCA Conspiracy Indictment Filed Involving Efforts to Crack DISH Encryption System

Jung Kwak, Phillip Allison, and Robert Ward have ben charged with one count of conspiracy to violate the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. Mr. Kwak authorized the others to break the latest DISH encription so they could get free satelite. He agreed to pay them for cracking the encritpion. Mr. Kwak paid 20,000 dollars for someone to disect and take pictures of the smart cards required to get the satelite signal. He also offered another 250,000 for the EPROM for the smart card. At Mr. Kwak’s initial appearance in United States District Court todaythe government moved that Mr. Kwak be detained without bail. They will have a maximum penalty of 5 years in prison and a 250,000 dollar fine.