The unauthorized reception of cable programming is against the law and can carry stiff penalties and fines for anyone found to be violating the law. Some descrambler manufacturers and distributors can pre-program your descrambler to only be capable of receiving those channels that you are authorized to receive, and most descramblers are programmable by the customer so they will exclude all unauthorized programming. David in Talisay - Did your decoder work with skycable? I thought this boxes are addressable and unless the serial of your boxes are activated in skycable office, they wont work.
If they do work, ,can I order a couple of them from you? Mark Henn was good enough to reply, and has delivered it to me here in Talisay he is actually staying in the same subdivision as I live in.
I have opened up the box, using the Jerrold Tool Bit I also ordered, and looked inside. Having checked with the instructions downloaded from the Newelectronix. It was easier to follow, having only the correct information for my CFT Box all together in the modified document. I have asked Newelectronix. Q: What are bullets and can the cable company destroy my box?
A: Bullets are nothing more than transmitted signal which effects the cable box program. It does not fry the guts of the equipment but rather may shut the box off temporarily, reprogram the box, or shut the box down in an error mode until service can rectify the problem. A non-addressable box will manage this process effectively. This is what is meant by a "bullet-proof" cable box. To be operated legally, a "test chip" would have to be installed on equipment you own, and would have to be mapped or programmed in such a way that only authorized programming was received.
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Updated 21 hrs ago. Digital channels are encrypted in a much more complicated manner today than in the analog TV era, lessening the chances that such devices will actually work.
Even where a device does descramble channels when first used, there is absolutely no guarantee that it will continue to work permanently. The legal situation over owning an unofficial descrambler has been a gray area. There is little, if any, dispute that possessing such a device is a criminal offense and that law authorities could prosecute owners. It is not clear whether TV service suppliers, such as cable firms, can take civil action over owners, however.
Unauthorized use of an illegal pirate box cable descrambler ordinarily provides a basis for both a civil and criminal litigation against the person who possesses the descrambler. The civil suit may be brought by the cable company which otherwise would have received revenue from the television programming decoded by the box. The consequences for being caught with a pirate box descrambler depend upon the amount of evidence possessed by the police or cable company.
If a pirate cable box is detected in a residence where there was no cable subscription, or is found to be connected to the cable line where there is no lawful use for the box other than descrambling programming to which the resident does not subscribe, it is much more likely that a civil suit will result, and it is more likely that the police will take an interest in the case. Even where the cable company has records showing that a suspect cable descrambler was purchased by somebody at a particular address, or detects the presence of a box within a house, that may not be enough to act against the resident of that house.
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