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On 25 Jan 2008 17:14:26 GMT, Jim Yanik wrote:

"SteveB" wrote in
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"Terry" wrote in message

om. .. On Jan 24, 10:18 pm, "
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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...tv-satellite/p
riv ...

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
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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.

So, is that the same as going to a library, checking out a book,
copying it, and returning the book. I mean, they have the book
back, don't they?

Steve




there's a big difference between -cable- and SATELLITE.
One requires you string a cable to your home to get the signal,the
other doesn't,the signal is there no matter what you do,whether you
want it or not.

Satellite TV is no different than the power company charging for
sunlight when you put in your own solar panels.

Um... The satellite provider has to pay for much of the programming
they provide, and also has to maintain the system. Those satellites
don't come cheap.

If you have a job, I'm sure you expect to get paid for your work,
don't you? If you employer decided that he didn't feel like paying
you, would you have a problem with that? His argument for not paying
you is that it's okay because you were there working anyway, so it's
not like he's stealing from you or anything...



Nice comparison. I like that.

Steve




it's not even a "comparison".

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