Re: Cable TV Descrambler $20.00

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From: James Milford Rogers
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 1996 00:00

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troyw@pig.net (Troy Williams) writes:

>doneal@ccinet.ab.ca (Duncan O'Neal) wrote:

>>>This is highly illegal and anyone who is caught buying or selling a
>>>descrambler box could be prosecuted by the local cable tv company. I
>>>know because I am a cable television auditor!!!!

>>So is the theft by large corperations of scrambling technology.

>>If they had paid proper royalties to the guy that invented the tech 
>>there would not be a problem today.

>Well looks like we've been busted... <G> I don't see how it's so great
>to have all these channels, you know that one has gotta be running the
>same show as the other. It's illegal from the sound of it, and if I
>were to get a descrambler, I'm sure that the cable company would be
>able to track me down very easily.

Actually, they would not be able to track you down at all.
-- 
Jim Rogers (gt8100a@prism.gatech.edu)

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From: gt8100a@prism.gatech.edu (James Milford Rogers)
Subject: Re: Cable TV Descrambler $20.00
Date: 1996/07/02
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