S.C. Defendants Urge Denial of Dish, Sling Preliminary Injunction Motion

Sentry and its owner, Michael Graziano, urge the U.S. District Court for South Carolina in Beaufort to deny the Dish Network and Sling TV Oct. 10 motion for a preliminary injunction barring the defendants from violations of the anti-trafficking provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and to freeze their assets, said their opposition Friday (docket 9:23-cv-05074). Dish and Sling allege Sentry and Graziano profit from the sale of an “illicit streaming service” called Tanggula that captures and retransmits Dish and Sling content without authorization by circumventing Dish’s security measures (see 2310110050). Dish and Sling are unlikely to suffer irreparable harm as a result of the defendants’ actions, said their opposition. Dish and Sling haven’t even attempted to explain why freezing the defendants’ assets is “necessary, warranted or just,” it said. Dish and Sling also are “unlikely to successfully show” that the Tanggula service falls within the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provision, “as required to succeed on the merits,” it said.