On 25 Jan 2008 17:10:14 GMT, Jim Yanik wrote:

Sam E wrote in
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On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:49:37 -0800 (PST), Terry
wrote:

On Jan 24, 10:18*pm, " wrote:
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/pri
v...

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
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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 Direct TV?- Hide quoted text -

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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

If you steal your neighbors car he no longer has it.

If you tune in cable channels no one has lost anything tangible.

Cable companies call it stealing, but it is not the same thing.

Of course it isn't, despite the ridiculous claims otherwise. This
includes claims from our business-controlled government.


there's a big difference between CABLE TV and SATELLITE TV.

I suppose this difference has nothing to do with what constitutes
"stealing". Otherwise you would have said what that is.

If it possible you're referring to the 2-way interaction in digital
cable (while not accepting the existence of analog cable)?
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