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Re: $200m said by cdru:That $200m isn't just for licensing from the original lawsuit. The original lawsuit amount of close to $200m has already been paid for the period prior to April 2008. The new amount is $1.25 per subscriber plus an additional $1 for contempt from the period since April 2008. TiVO had wanted close to $1b in fines for contempt, but the court balked at that amount. At this point, Dish should have just bought out a controlling share of TiVO for about the same price. Charlie Ergen's too cheap. |
 cdruGo ColtsPremium,MVM
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kudos:5 | Charlie Ergen has more money (net worth: $9.1b) then I and probably everyone else on these forums ever will. I'll defer judging his financial wisdom or calling him "too cheap" until after I make my first cool billion dollars. |
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He is learning the hard way not to invest in expecting Justice to prevail but in "investing" in Congress to help make sure things like this won't happen.
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And how exactly do you think he got that 9.1B? By being cheap! Charlie Ergan is the scum of the earth, he's the spawn of Satan, or perhaps he's even Satan himself. He's an ole' miser who makes Ebenezer Scrooge look like philanthropist of the millennium. I have no problem with companies making money and as much of it as possible, that's what America is all about. What I have a problem with is how el Cheapo uses his customers as pawns in his game and then airs all his dirty laundry with programming providers on Fr Charlie Gospel Hour the second Monday of every month (aka the Charlie Chat). When I had Dish Network, it was a very long five year period after I learned how Charlie operated. Every month I'd fear my favorite channels would be dropped because el Cheapo was too greedy to pay but then come on channel 100 the following month and tell us how he's 'doing it for us'.
Granted all programming providers have contract disputes, DirecTV just dropped Versus the other day, the best MSO on the planet, my Time Warner Cable, dumped HDNet and HDNet Movies in June, but it isn't a constant threat. With Dish Network I always wondered which channel was next on the chopping block.
Leaving Dish Network and not supporting the likes of that evil greedy old man was things I could have done.
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