Why does this require the courts? Can't FOX just refuse to renew their contract with Dish TV and then Dish will be without Fox channels?
My guess: multi-year contracts.
Also wanting to have your cake and eat it too.
A similar lawsuit helped to kill ReplayTV 10 years ago, however, they didn't have the same clout Dish does. The latter versions of ReplayTV had the Commercial Advance feature disabled as a result.
Gotta love it. They keep trying to shove shit down our throats that we don't want, and get surprised when somebody fights back. Maybe there wouldn't be a need to have hardware that can skip ads if those ads weren't so incredibly obnoxious.