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Defendant Seeks 14-Day Extension to Answer Dish DMCA Complaint

Defendant William Everly seeks a 14-day extension to Jan. 4 to answer Dish Network’s Sept. 30 complaint accusing him of Federal Communications Act and Digital Millennium Copyright Act violations, said his unopposed motion Wednesday (docket 3:22-cv-01748) in U.S. District Court…

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for Northern Ohio in Toledo. The parties have been engaged in settlement discussions since the filing of the complaint, and the extension will give them more time “to explore a final resolution” without the need for further litigation, said the motion. The Dish complaint alleges Everly, of Toledo, “is involved in operating illicit streaming services” that capture the Dish internet communications of TV programming by circumventing Dish security measures and then retransmitting that programming without authorization to customers who bought access to those services from Everly.