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Received April 4, 2019
On April 1, 2019, the United States District Court for the Central District of California granted a motion for final judgment against Ferras Jim Pshehalouk, TVizion LLC, and 247 Smart Life, LLC. On April 2, 2020, the Court amended the final judgment to add NuMedia Global and NuMedia Global Hosting as judgment-debtors. Ferras and his companies were sued by DISH Network and NagraStar for federal claims arising out of their operation of illicit streaming services known as TVizion and NuMedia Global, whereby television programming originating from DISH’s satellite communications was retransmitted without authorization to users of the TVizion and NuMedia Global streaming services. The Court’s order includes a permanent injunction against Ferras and his companies as well as an award of $5,989,000 in statutory damages under the Federal Communications Act (“FCA”).
In September 2019 and August 2020 DISH served Writs of Execution and garnishment packages on banks and individuals associated with Ferras and his companies thereby freezing all funds and assets held by those banks and individuals which were in the name of or otherwise owed to Ferras and the other corporate judgment-debtors. Those frozen funds were instead paid to DISH Network in partial satisfaction of the Court’s judgment. DISH and NagraStar continue to investigate and take action against those responsible for trying to circumvent the companies’ security system in order to gain unauthorized access to DISH Network programming.