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Steve Raft wrote:
> 
> George wrote:
> >
> > SHNWGA wrote:
> > >
> > > Get caught and go to jail. Is it really worth it?
> >
> > Humm... ok lets see in CA it is a misdemanor and max $1000 fine...
> >
> > now they have to prove you actually watched something without 
> > paying for it right, hows that going to happen?, mere possession 
> > is not illegal as if the cable company can own them so can you,
> > the law dosent allow one class of citizens a privlidge ofer another.
> >
> > so we are back to actually catching you, humm are they going to peep 
> > through your window and invade your privacy? get real, the only people
> > that get in any real trouble are those that sell them with the specific
> > intent for you to do something illegal with them, not the user.
> 
> A couple of the RF specialist/electrical engineers where I work have old 
> me that tv's leak out the signal that you are watching. Theoretically
> the cable company could set up a sensitive reciever in a van and go 
> around neiborhoods tuning into these signals.  I don't know if this is
> practical in real life or even if the cable companies really care about 
> doing it.  I suspect that if too large a percentage of cable subscibers 
> obtain descramblers then the cable industry will find a way to fight back.

The only instances I've heard of where someone has been cought with an 
illegally hooked up descrambler involved a fair abount of stupidity. In one 
case the guy who had installed them was at work when there was a problem 
with so the wife called the cable company to service the problem. The 
service tech noticed the illegal hookup and the cable company's lawyers 
wanted him to pay $5000 per illegal hookup, there were two, or $10,000. 
After his lawyer got involved they settled for a couple thousand.

In another classic case of stupidity, the cable company aired a program the 
had a lottery for prizes awarded to randomly selected cable customers whos 
boxes would be programmed to unscramble the information on where to go to 
claim their prizes. They got a couple dozen idiots to go down to claim their 
prizes but all they received was a citation and fine of $1000.

If your interested in purchasing a descrambler here on the Internet, I've 
compiled a list of almost 20 descrambler retailers on the WWW. If you don't 
see a site listed there that you think should be, let me know. I've tried to 
eliminate all of the descrambler plans ripoffs.

http://www.why.net/home/phylos/descrambler.html

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