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The Lawsuit and My Meeting with Dish Network.
Okay, first let me say this. Dish Network and Bell Expressvu have sued a person they believe is me. I am listed as a defendant
under the name Paramount in 2 separate lawsuits for 10 million dollars each. They are trying to say that a person named Lance owns this website, and they are going under the assumption that Lance is paramount and that paramount owns this site.
I did say I owned this site at one point or another, I believe I may also have told a friend once or twice that I own the dallas cowboys and miami dolphins as well. Lance, the person who was served with the 2 lawsuits from Bell Expressvu and Echostar has never admitted to owning HashHU. Infact if you look at the registration information for HashHU.com there isn't a single mention of anyone under the name Lance or anyone living in Ontario which is where the lawsuits were filed.
To make things a whole lot simpler I, paramount, will come right out and say it, I am Lance and I will tell you everything that has transpired over the course of the last 6 months up until today. I am also going to bet $50,000 that this statement ends up in court, because up until this point, almost every post I have made has ended up in a binder and given to the justice to read not to mention several hundred pages of posts from satscams, rom 10x, dss-newbies, sat junky and so on. Joe Blow makes a post stating that he knows that a guy named Lance owns HashHU than it ends up in evidence. What a great country we live in. Dish Network and Bell Expressvu can fabricate their own evidence to how they see fit to show that Lance is Paramount than present it to the judge and say look, this guy said it, it's true.
Anyways, on to what has transpired.
On February 22nd 2007 I was served with a lawsuit from Echostar LLC as well as Nagrastar LLC and Echostar Technologies, this was 1 lawsuit with 3 plaintiffs. I was woken up around noon to what I thought was some construction workers getting ready to do some work on my house. Instead this guy introduces himself as JJ Gee from Nagrastar which is when I thought to myself "shit, the gigs up", I was surprised as hell to see them, although I knew hashhu was probably the biggest thorn in their side when compared to the hundreds of other satellite sites that are identical in nature to HashHU. I was told by supposed head of signal integrity JJ Gee that HashHU was the largest satellite site in North America and that's why they came to me. The 3 guys standing at my door handed me business cards, one said Wayne Gow head of investigations for Bell ExpressVu Field Security or something like that, the other was Jason Dumbdreck, Vice president of King Reid Private Investigators and the other was JJ Gee, head of security and field investigations from Nagrastar. JJ Gee did 98% of the talking that day.
The first thing that was said was that they had no intention of carrying out litigation against me if I was willing to work with them. The second thing JJ Gee said was that if I didn't want to work with them bell would also be suing me for 10 million dollars in a seperate suit and they would take down this site with an injunction within the next few days after february 22nd. JJ Gee told me that he thought we could come to an agreement that would be beneficial to all parties, and asked if I was willing to talk with them about working with them. I agreed to talk to them because I wanted to see what they had to say and what they were going to offer me. We had the meeting at Tim Hortons down the street from my house. The first thing I said was I wanted a non-prejudice meeting agreement signed by JJ Gee and Wayne Gow, in this they agreed to keep the meeting private as did I, they also agreed anything I said in the meeting couldn't be used against me in court.
The point of meeting me with 3 people from their side was to intimidate me into working with them, wayne gow and jason dumbdreck only talked when I talked to them. JJ Gee told me if I told anyone that I was even sued or approached by dish network than they would just sue me and forget about working with me. I asked JJ Gee what he wanted from me and he said he wanted to buy the site from me, he wanted information on SI Leaker, and he wanted me to act as a rat for dish network. I asked how much money he was talking, first thing he said was 20 grand cash for the site, no papers, bill of sale or nothing, they give me the cash and I give them the passwords. I said I've had offers of over 100 grand for the site. He said if they sued me I wouldn't have any offers at all, so the draw to sell to them for 20 grand was just so I wouldn't be sued. I said I was better off to just sell the site tomorrow for my previous offer. He said he would still sue me. I said I would fight them till I had to declare bankruptcy and they wouldn't get a dime. At this point he made up some bullshit story about how if they win a judgement against me it will be considered fraud and it will stay with me for life. I told him I wasn't an idiot and I knew that wasn't true. Than he told me he thought we could work something out close to my figure if I met with the 3 of them at their lawyers office, he said he had the cash the same day ready to give to me.
I asked them what about ratting people out, what was their plan for that. He said I'd get cash under the table for every person I ratted out. They didn't tell me how much, JJ just said it was enough to pay the bills. At this point I told them there was 1 person I wanted to tell I was approached by dish network and show the papers to and that was David Fuss. For those of you who don't know this person, he is the owner of Ariza Technology, probably the largest dealer of satellite equipment in canada over the last decade. I had been buying items from him and got to know him along the way. JJ asked why I wanted to tell David Fuss. I told him that I was going to probably have David's Lawyer look at the lawsuit they served me with and than I would be able to tell them more about working with them and that I'd rather meet with their lawyer after my lawyer has looked at the papers. As soon as I said the words "David's Lawyer" JJ got all uneasy and told me absolutely not. I said than what do you want me to do? Get Joe Blow out of the phone book to look at the papers and tell me what he thinks? That's when JJ handed me 2 business cards. The first was Ian Angus who originally did work for the satellite companies but now apparently defends for people accused by them. The second was Charles Wagman, another person who is defending in other cases like Echostar vs. SkyHigh Electronics. Obviously this looked kind of funny to me. Did JJ think I was stupid enough to use any lawyer the people suing me were recommending rather than a lawyer who has proven his effectiveness against the satellite companies? The only case Davids lawyer has come close to losing regarding satellite was against the governor general of canada in an effort to declare several sections of the Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Code unconstitutional, not against any satellite companies and he has been involved in several cases with them. I asked him if it was even legal for him to say we will only settle with you if you use this lawyer.
This is when I started to feel better about everything that was going on, as soon as I saw JJ's reaction to the words "David's Lawyer" I knew they had next to no case against me. I than asked JJ why he didn't want me to use David's lawyer, Milton A Davis. He said he didn't want David to know I had been approached by them and if David found out, they had no interest in working with me and they'd sue me and take down the site, etc. I asked them at that point if David was one of the people they wanted me to rat out, and JJ said he would talk to me about that later. I said he is the last person I would rat out even if I did have any knowledge of illegal activities on Davids part, which I don't. David has treated me 10 times better than anyone else in the satellite business. I asked them about Jung Kwak, owner of Viewsat, if they wanted him too, JJ said yes. On a side note, I'd like to add that I have been treated like shit from Viewtech and Jung Kwak ever since I let Jung know that I had been sued. I was ignored for months and only after Jung has also been sued he started talking to me again, there will be more I have to say about Viewtech and Jung Kwak in a future post. Jung Kwak has contributed to Echostars anti-piracy efforts indirectly despite my best efforts to stop him from doing so.
The meeting ended with me agreeing to come to their lawyers office in downtown Toronto to look at a settlement they were going to offer me. I called JJ about an hour later and told him I would not be coming to their lawyers office without my own lawyer present and I told him I wanted to reschedule the meeting for 3 days from now until I could find a lawyer. I really only wanted to delay them 3 days as this would give me time to talk to David and Davids lawyer. I called David up the next day and got his advice. I decided I was going to fight Dish Network, I called JJ back and told him I found a lawyer and he was looking over the lawsuit and would get back to me on it, and I needed another few days. JJ asked who I was using as a lawyer and I told him my lawyer will contact your lawyer. This is the last time I talked to JJ or anyone else from Dish Network, Echostar, Nagrastar or Bell ExpressVu, February 25th.
My lawyer contacted their lawyer and that's when JJ knew I was not going to work with them as I was using Milton A Davis as my lawyer. Around March 15th I was served with another lawsuit from Bell ExpressVu which was identical except for they changed "Echostar" to "ExpressVu" all over the lawsuit, they used the same lawyer for both cases. Milton filed a statement of defence in both cases and at this point that is pretty much the extent to what has happened, my lawyer has not heard from the other side in months.
As it stands now they are apparently visiting people of interest in US and Canada trying to collect more evidence linking Lance to Paramount because at this point it's 100% heresay.
I said I'd post this at 11pm so here it is, I was not able to get 100% of what I had to say in this post but I will be saying more shortly.
Dish Network and Bell ExpressVu are trying to wage war against the community and this site with propaganda, this is the first round of our own style of propaganda, the truth, and that in the end is what will help us put a stop to the assault Dish Network has been dishing out in the last few months, I do regret staying silent for so long on this issue and I apologize for keeping the community in the dark on this for so long. If I had of spoken sooner their propaganda war wouldn't be so strong as it is right now, in the future I will let everyone know everything right away.
Aug 11th, 2007, 20:43
