DIRECTV, INC. v. BARCZEWSKI

Nos. 06-2219, 06-2221.

604 F.3d 1004 (2010)

DIRECTV, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. David BARCZEWSKI and Jonathan Wisler, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 13, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marc Zwillinger (argued), Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, Washington, DC, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Paul B. Overhauser (argued), Overhauser Law Offices, Greenfield, IN, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge, and FLAUM and SYKES, Circuit Judges.


EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge.

A jury concluded that Jonathan Wisler intercepted encrypted signals from the DirecTV satellite system without authorization and that David Barczewski furnished devices to assist others to steal the signals. See 18 U.S.C. § 2511; 47 U.S.C. § 605. Ample evidence supports this verdict: both defendants bought electronic gear from a merchant that advertised its products as designed to facilitate theft of DirecTV signals, and both participated...

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