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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Cable ready TV, etc.
Message-ID: <712@cbosgd.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 15-Jan-85 17:40:31 EST
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In article <1597@ittvax.UUCP> schachte@ittvax.UUCP (Peter Schachte) writes:
>The problem is, of course, that undergound unscrambler companies would
>crop up to sell these unscramblers.  Once you found out which
>unscrambler you need for your movie channels you could just buy one and
>never pay for movies again.

What's to say that such companies don't already exist?  How many ways can
there be in common use to scramble a TV signal, anyway?  The cable company
has to buy their unscrambler boxes from somebody (I doubt they make them
themselves), and if you can buy a cable tuner from Jerrold (the same ones
the cable company rents you) why is an unscrambler box any different?