On Jan 27, 12:24 pm, aemeijers wrote:
mg wrote:
On Jan 23, 7:37 pm, Sigmand wrote:
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?

I don't think there is any doubt that one person could give someone
else one of his receivers and the second party could then receive
satellite TV with it.

One thing that might, perhaps, give these two people pause, though, is
that GPS (global positioning system) is becoming very cheap and it's
conceivable, I suppose, that satellite companies could incorporate GPS
in their system and determine exactly where the receiver is located.

Dish already has a cheaper solution in place- if you have two receivers,
both must be hooked to a phone line, or they add five bucks a month to
your bill. When the box phones the 800 number every X days to get the
update, their computer compares the caller ID to the phone number of
record. If it doesn't match, expect a charge on the bill, or a call from
their fraud folks, or even a shutoff on the receiver.

Hey, these overpriced boxes are how they make a living. They have gotten
pretty good about preventing the formerly easy ways to scam them. Why do
you think they stopped using removable account cards? Hacking the box
itself is a lot harder.

aem sends...

If two people wanted to watch Dish Network, and split the bill which
might perhaps be $100/month, I don't think a $5 a monthly penalty
would be much of a deterent.