On Jan 24, 11:49Â*pm, Terry wrote:
On Jan 24, 10:18Â*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/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
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.
Spoken like someone who doesn't understand, or care , what
intellectual property is.
So let's say EVERYONE "tunes in" cable channels or satellite without
paying for it. The company gets zero dollars, goes out of business,
because it actually costs money to stay IN business. See, it costs
money to pay cable installers, run coax, buy distribution boxes, pay
for the channels that they are supplying to customers, pay for health
care for their employees, etc.
So now the company has no money. But hey, nobody did anything wrong,
right? Now, clearly, the company was damaged by the activity of all
of those people.