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Article #4894Re: Cable Companies, was Re: Cable TV Descrambler $20.00
From: Ann Myers
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1996 00:00
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Eric Sasaki <gt7294b@prism.gatech.edu> wrote: > > Brian Trosko <btrosko@primenet.com> writes: > > >What is difficult to understand about this? Legal purchase and use of a > >cable descrambler is an alternative to paying a monthly fee to your cable > >company for rental of their box and remote. > > It's also an easy way to steal cable TV. Yes, you can legally use it for > the purposes you describe. However, it would be naive to think that most > people buy a descrambler with saving just on the rental fee in mind. From > just here at my school, we had a bunch of people busted for illegally > receiving pay channels using descrambler devices. > > There is a difference between a device that can be used legally and a device > that can also be used legally but has a greater possiblity of being used > illegally... > > - E What's your point? Am I not supposed to use it legally since the device is easily used illegally? Sorry, I used every means available to avoid paying TCI. -Ann
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10e1e4,82eb0084358fff09 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e1e4,public X-Google-Thread: f6504,82eb0084358fff09 X-Google-Attributes: gidf6504,public X-Google-Thread: f6184,82eb0084358fff09 X-Google-Attributes: gidf6184,public X-Google-Thread: 10d69d,82eb0084358fff09 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d69d,public X-Google-Thread: fdbbd,82eb0084358fff09 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdbbd,public X-Google-Thread: 1022c1,82eb0084358fff09 X-Google-Attributes: gid1022c1,public X-Google-Thread: 111429,82eb0084358fff09 X-Google-Attributes: gid111429,public X-Google-Thread: 112f74,82eb0084358fff09 X-Google-Attributes: gid112f74,public From: Ann Myers <annm@seca.com> Subject: Re: Cable Companies, was Re: Cable TV Descrambler $20.00 Date: 1996/06/06 Message-ID: <31B76CA5.6C50@seca.com> X-Deja-AN: 158866746 references: <4o4q8m$5nd@mn5.swip.net> <4oo59v$abn@dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com> <4ot6np$4kq@news.greatbasin.net> <4ovl1i$2so@trojan.neta.com> <4p5m5h$rnm@news.greatbasin.net> <4p79ti$lcf@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> <4p7hed$5i2@mordred.gatech.edu> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: SecaGraphics mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: 5col.general,ab.general,alc.general,alt.aapg.general,asu.general.announce,at.general,at.tuwien.general,atl.general,aus.general,austin.general,az.general,ba.general,balt.general,bc.general,bermuda.general,bionet.general,bit.general,biz.general,biz.sco.general,biz.zeos.general,bonbit.general,boulder.general,ca.general,can.atlantic.general x-mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; U; HP-UX A.09.04 9000/856)