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Re: Cable TV Descrambler $20.00

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From: Duncan O'Neal
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1996 00:00
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Deborah@finetouch.silver-springs.nv.us wrote:

>hiwest@ix.netcom.com(Warren West) wrote:

>>In <4o4q8m$5nd@mn5.swip.net> flash@kuai.se (Tomas Smedberg) writes: 
>>>
>>>Do YOU want to use a superb startpage??
>>>
>>>http://www.tripod.com/~inside



>>Cable TV Descrambler 160 stations $20.00
>>hiwest@ix.netcom.com

>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.

Duncan
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From: doneal@ccinet.ab.ca (Duncan O'Neal)
Subject: Re: Cable TV Descrambler $20.00
Date: 1996/06/06
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