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In article <4p7hed$5i2@mordred.gatech.edu>,
Eric Sasaki <esasaki@area1s232.residence.gatech.edu> wrote:
: 
: 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.

Naivete has nothing to do with it.  I don't really care *what* a person
does with a descrambler that he owns.  If he's using it illegally, then
I don't want to know about it.  Let the Feds deal with it!

But to suggest that it's the only reason to buy them, or that it's the only
reason that most people buy them, is dangerous.  This could lead to
banning them, which is an intrusion on our Freedom.

Look it up.  It's all there in the Constitution.  Yee-ha!  


: 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...

No, there isn't.  There may be to you, but to most of us free-thinking,
freedom-loving Americans, we think it's a pretty damn good idea to
be able to own our own equipment rather than burn our money each month
paying a huge, money-grubbing, unresponsive, unrelenting, fee-raising,
service-cutting, and just downright Evil company to use theirs.  
It's the same reason why You and I buy a phone rather than rent one 
from the phone company.



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               Paul T. Brown    buckweat@ecst.csuchico.edu  
Chico State Computer Science    http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~buckweat
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