Legal Question in Technology Law in New York

Re: Sell or purchase DSS (tv) systems and/or cards

This is one that is unanswerable without knowing the details of the technology of the cards involved and researching the patent protection, if any, of existing cards. Same holds true for the systems. Tell me what patents cover the existing systems and what technology is in the clones and I can tell you, for a large fee, whether there is infringement or not.

In general, however, if the technology is not patented, it is perfectly okay to use the technology. If the technology is, however, intended to be used primarily or solely for illegal activities such as theft of services, copyright infringement, patent infringement, etc. then it is problematic.

So, to find the answer will cost you, and that is one of the reasons providers are successful in keeping others at bay....except where digital information is the product, then the pirates have almost free reign in flaunting the law.