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I know someone* who did some research on the laws a few years ago and found that because of the whole telecommunications break-up, there were all kinds of loop holes that allowed the buying, selling, and even using of illiegal descramblers. The law was something like "they had to allow third party hardware manufacturers to build cable boxes that people could buy on their own, and it is up to the owner of the cable box to notify the cable provider if they ever view any of their content".
This someone* bought a cable box on ebay from a seller that sells hundreds of these a month for a little over $100 that got all of the channels, including pay-per-view... but of course that someone never actually WATCHED any of those channels because that would have been stealing. This someone* also never downloaded any music off of PTP sites, or movies to watch on his/her laptop while flying across the country, or anything like that.
After several years of owning this cable box, this someone* finally moved and upgraded to digital cable, so they magic box no longer worked.
Those who doubt whether this can go down might be interested in doing a quick search on ebay for "cable box"...
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