Re: Cable Companies, was Re: Cable TV Descrambler $20.00

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From: Deborah
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1996 00:00

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caradoc@trojan.neta.com (John Groseclose) wrote:

>Deborah@finetouch.silver-springs.nv.us 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!!!!

>Excellent. Please tell us which code you would be prosecuting under.

>Buying and/or selling this kind of equipment isn't illegal, to the best of 
>my knowledge. *USING* the equipment to intercept and view signals you 
>haven't paid for is.

Why would you buy the equipment if you had no intentions of using it
to view what it was set up for? To sit on your entertainment center so
your friends THINK you subscribe to pay stations!?? And as for the
codes, you would have to look it up in the statutes for that
particular state, it would be under THEFT OF CATV SIGNAL, or,
UNAUTHORIZED USE OF CATV SIGNAL

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From: Deborah@finetouch.silver-springs.nv.us
Subject: Re: Cable Companies, was Re: Cable TV Descrambler $20.00
Date: 1996/06/06
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