On Jan 24, 9:52�pm, "Cliff Hartle" wrote:
The receiver won't work unless you pay your bill or deal with web sites like
this.

http://www.satellitesdirecttvdishnet...satellite/priv...

When you stop paying your bill they do something to the receiver to turn it
off.

I don't know if they still do it this way, but the receivers had a card in
them. �You could purchase a hacked card that would give you access until the
sat company defeated them and you would have to get a new card. The other
way to get this card was to get one that could be reprogrammed. �I was once
in a house that had a cable running from their receiver to a old computer
that kept the card up to date.

Its explained a little bit here.

http://www.tech-faq.com/signal-theft.shtml



"Sigmand" wrote in ...
I have a hypothetical friend. �He has subscribed to both Dish Network and
Direct TV in the past. �He currently has the Dish Network network dish
mounted on his house and is subscribed to cable. �He also has a
hypothetical friend that currently subscribes to Direct TV. �He wonders out
loud what would happen if he borrowed the extra box that is hardly used
from his friend.

Are both disks the same. �Would one box work with the other's dish? Would
the box work if he climbed up on the house and changed the dish back to
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why does anyone think its OK to steal satellite tv? would you steal
your neighbors car? rip off stuff from the grocery store?