Forgive my ignorance as I've never had satellite tv and have barely even
touched the controls.

I presume if you have service to more than one tv you have a box by each
both fed from the dish & LNB via a cable splitter.

So can someone take one of their boxes to another location and hook it to
another dish/LNB and still be part of the original service without a 2nd
subscription?

Again, I am showing my ignorance but these things are downlinks only,
right? What do they do about pay per view?

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Also, as a separate but related matter, with cable tv moving towards almost
all channels being scrambled and mandatory use of a converter box as
gatekeeper what happens if you take such a box (already activated) to
another location on the same cable system. I'm going to guess if you take
it next door the system has no clue. But I don't know how widely spread
each location is getting exactly the same signal so maybe a block away it
works but across town it would be on a different node or something and not
work?

Yes, I know it sounds like I'm planning to cheat in some way but I'm really
more just curious. Guess I'm wondering why more people don't share
subscriptions if it's technically feasible.