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<blockquote data-quote="PoloMint" data-source="post: 46165" data-attributes="member: 175235"><p>While I have nothing against people playing around with equipment and watching a bit of free TV themselves, I think taking money from people so that they can receive pirated TV channels should not be supported. I don’t know if it is worse that they were making a profit from free transmissions (BBC) or pay channels (like Sky channels and Canal Dutch). In my opinion people that run those services are no different from people selling cards for £50 in pubs.</p><p></p><p>I understand that people living in these areas have little other viable option of watching UK TV, but the people running these cable and retransmission companies are not doing it out of good will, they are doing it for money, and if that means taking advantage of where people live or their lack of knowledge then that’s what they do.</p><p></p><p>There was a cable company fairly near where I lived in Spain, Some British business people bought the infrastructure of a loss making local Spanish cable company, bought some Videocrypt (Sky analogue in those days) receives, put half a dozen sky channels onto the network and charged a subscription to watch them. This was in the days when videocrypt sky keys were everywhere and every other English pub or shop in the south of spain had an add in the window offering ‘latest sky card guaranteed for 6 months’ Think the cable company lasted for a few years before it was shut, at one point people found out how to hack the encryption they used, which I always thought was quite amusing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PoloMint, post: 46165, member: 175235"] While I have nothing against people playing around with equipment and watching a bit of free TV themselves, I think taking money from people so that they can receive pirated TV channels should not be supported. I don’t know if it is worse that they were making a profit from free transmissions (BBC) or pay channels (like Sky channels and Canal Dutch). In my opinion people that run those services are no different from people selling cards for £50 in pubs. I understand that people living in these areas have little other viable option of watching UK TV, but the people running these cable and retransmission companies are not doing it out of good will, they are doing it for money, and if that means taking advantage of where people live or their lack of knowledge then that’s what they do. There was a cable company fairly near where I lived in Spain, Some British business people bought the infrastructure of a loss making local Spanish cable company, bought some Videocrypt (Sky analogue in those days) receives, put half a dozen sky channels onto the network and charged a subscription to watch them. This was in the days when videocrypt sky keys were everywhere and every other English pub or shop in the south of spain had an add in the window offering ‘latest sky card guaranteed for 6 months’ Think the cable company lasted for a few years before it was shut, at one point people found out how to hack the encryption they used, which I always thought was quite amusing. [/QUOTE]
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