A lawyer Valais bends Canal +

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The Federal Court has acquitted a reseller decoders for television. He is a lawyer Valais Sébastien Fanti who bailed the accused who had been condemned by a court to pay 100,000 francs Jura Canal + and the manufacturer of the decoder. It will ultimately not pay a dime.

With these devices, customers got the keys Jura decoding for watching Canal + and CanalSat subscribe without subscription with the French group. The man cashed a passing subscription "home" much less than that charged by Canal +. The accused had sold until October 2007 to get these decoders modified automatically download on its server decryption keys he managed to isolate analyzing the signals dozen subscriptions which he had subscribed.

The case caused a stir in Switzerland among many "insiders" in this fraud scheme. In our country, according Comparis.ch, hundreds of thousands of homes would use a decoder hacked. However, each time a user was pinched indelicate - usually following a denunciation by a close - Canal + attacked in court and asked for astronomical sums. It can no longer do so. This judgment is Swiss law, it was learned Thursday.

In addition, the case bounced in France. "It will cost millions to Canal +. Lawyers will invoke this precedent in the context of other litigation, "says Sébastien Fanti, obviously very pleased to have trumped Canal +.
 
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