The $58,000 TV bill: When DirecTV sued O.J. Simpson for piracy

In 2001, the FBI raided O.J.'s house and found smartcards, bootloaders.

See full article...

 

[ai_fodder]

....Until he murdered two people, and the bill came due.

One could argue that the bill didn't quite come due, as he was acquitted (famously) in the murder trial... The consequences were he had to try to hide his money from the family of the people that he was acquitted of killing, because he was later found responsible for deaths under a lower bar: "Preponderance of the evidence.", rather than "Beyond a reasonable doubt."

 

[ai_fodder]

The first eight computer bytes of all hacked cards were rewritten to read “GAME OVER.”

that is 11 bytes assuming they null terminated the string, 10 otherwise...