{"id":37418,"date":"2013-07-17T22:17:28","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T02:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=37418"},"modified":"2013-07-17T22:17:28","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T02:17:28","slug":"satellite-bahamas-blasted-for-signal-piracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/07\/satellite-bahamas-blasted-for-signal-piracy","title":{"rendered":"Satellite Bahamas Blasted For Signal Piracy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"There is \u201coverwhelming evidence\u201d that the Bahamas\u2019 leading satellite TV provider defrauded DIRECTV by pirating its programming and equipment to service over 5,800 local accounts, court documents are alleging.<\/p>\n

The largest US satellite broadcaster, in documents filed in the south Florida district earlier this month, alleged that Satellite Bahamas and its principals – Michael and Peter Garraway – had used an elaborate scheme to \u201cillegally obtain\u201d its TV signal.<\/p>\n

The complaint claims that the Garraways and their business, which is based at Top-of-the-Hill on Mackey Street, employed false customer and billing addresses to conceal the fact they were offering Bahamas-based clients DIRECTV\u2019s programming.<\/p>\n

The US satellite TV distributor, which supplies programming to more than 20 million US residential and business customers, alleged that Satellite Bahamas\u2019 use of its signal – which is supposed to be confined to the US only – was \u201cunauthorised\u201d.<\/p>\n

And it has asked the Florida court to attach a writ to Michael Garraway\u2019s Florida-based assets, on the grounds that he allegedly owes DIRECTV more than $224,000 for use of its equipment and unpaid account balances.<\/p>\n

And the total damages DIRECTV is seeking, while unspecified in the court papers, are likely to be much higher.<\/p>\n

Michael Garraway declined to comment on the DIRECTTV lawsuit, or its implications for Satellite Bahamas\u2019 business, when contacted by Tribune Business for comment yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DIRECTV has provided overwhelming evidence indicating that Satellite Bahamas pirated its programming and equipment to service over 5,800 local accounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[247,1891,56],"class_list":["post-37418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-fraud","tag-piracy","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}