Monday, June 21, Dish Network filed a lawsuit against two businessmen, Michael and Jason Cho and their company Mamertine Inc. that does business in the name of NFusion.  They were allegedly violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the Communications Act of 1934 and the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.

Dish Network is charging the businessmen for engaging in a satellite television piracy by selling systems that enables users to illegally intercept and decrypt Dish programs without proper authorization or legal satellite TV deals from Dish. 

Dish says that the Chos have developed a new method of pirating programming with a so-called Internet Key Sharing or the IKS.  This works by connecting an NFusion satellite receiver to the internet where an IKS may be obtained and used to decrypt program from Dish Network.

Last year, Mamertine had an unrelated lawsuit in federal court in Green Bay, Wisconsin with Infinity Systems LLC, a satellite TV box distributor.  NFusion was said to be in the process of getting a patent or trademark for its invention that intercepts satellite transmissions.  This way, their customers may access more than 800 channels on a fixed-fee basis without entering into agreement with a legal DBS provider.

Officials of Mamertine could not be located for comments.