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In article <4p5m5h$rnm@news.greatbasin.net>,
Deborah@finetouch.silver-springs.nv.us wrote:

> 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

Gee. Maybe I wanted to pay the cable company for the signal, but not have
to rent a box from them? There *are* legal reasons to own the box. That's
why the laws were written such that people could buy and sell the boxes.

As far as THEFT OF CATV SIGNAL, or UNAUTHORIZED USE OF CATV SIGNAL,
neither "charge" exists. CATV stands for Community Antenna TeleVision, not
cable as is provided today. It stems from the days when a community would
go buy a huge antenna and provide signal to each of the homes in the
community... After a time, some companies decided that it might be
profitable to maintain such a system, and started selling service.

You're the one who claimed to be an auditor, aren't you? I'd think you'd
have those particular codes at your fingertips. If you *are* a cable
auditor, and you *don't* have the statutes on your desk or at least in
your office, then you're not just incompetent. You're stupid, too.
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