Ghosts of Piracy Past

By Darno Von DeJohnette Sr.

A Shadow on the Screen: The Untold Story of the Cable Wars

The 1990s brought the dawn of the video entertainment age and an insatiable public hunger for cable television. However, as services expanded, a new kind of criminal activity became rampant: widespread cable piracy and theft of services, resulting in a staggering loss of millions of dollars in revenue for the industry.

With this overwhelming epidemic of intellectual property theft, cable companies were forced to launch an unprecedented counteroffensive. They deployed a specialized, dedicated force of specially trained private-sector investigators to actively pursue the arrest and prosecution of cable pirates.

Armed with the powerful legal tools California Penal Code 593d provided, these investigators blurred the line between corporate and public safety. They worked closely and often covertly with major law enforcement agencies, including the DHS, IRS, FBI, Secret Service, and local Police and Sheriff's departments, to stop the spread of a crime wave that threatened to undermine the entire television revolution.

Ghosts of Piracy Past takes you deep into the gritty, high-stakes criminal investigations that brought down the fraudsters and secured the future of home entertainment.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08R4F8TTR
• ISBN13: 9798584572822
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"