Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
 

Back on topic please

Can I also suggest the members watch their language as the swear filter is to catch mistakes and not to enable people to type what they will

Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
 

just helped stop the sale of 2 boxes over of Hotukdeals, the same user saying it was an unflashed free to air cable box, so he wasnt doing anything wrong.

will the free to air channels be encrypted too?

Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
 

On VM digital there is no such thing as free channels, even the M package is a subscription package that you get free with the phone line. No card/official box then no channels

Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
 

Thats like saying if VM left a blunt kitchen knife on the pavement and someone picked it up, sharpened it and murdered someone then it would be VM's fault.

i admit that leaving boxes with customers was not a good idea but that isn't an open invitation to commit fraud.

Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
 

This was posted on another forum today :LOL:

Then he posted this

Keep the roll out going VM :clap: :clap:

Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
 

:dmonk: :LOL: :clap:

Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
 

Here's another classic from the home of the cable thieves,

At least there starting to understand this is the end for them :LOL:

Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
 

who's 'dickie' and why are they giving him their bank details ?

Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
 

You may know him as Mr Branson. :)

Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
 

But this one is even funnier


:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
 

no it isnt what a stupid thing to say. Even without the possibilty of fraud the boxes should still be picked up as they have material value

Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
 

ah now i understand :D what they are saying is if you pay for it you will "magically" get the channels you want ,:D

brain dead morons make me laugh :D

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some call an ambulance ...quick ...i just split my sides :D:D:D:D

Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
 

have had a few customers in our store asking if its true and did we know anywhere they can buy new boxes from once it hits the tyneside area.

Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
 

The fact that I disagree with you isn't personal. I didn't call what you had to say stupid for example!, or threw my toys out of the pram by leaving a rude negative reputation comment.

The point you made was about fraud and that it is only VM's fault because they didn't pick the boxes up. I disagree with this and provided an example to try and explain why. I think the example works quite well actually.

The blunt kitchen knife = Vbox
Sharpened it = modded it illegally
Murdered someone with it = Committed fraud by stealing cable

Alright maybe it was a tad silly but surely you can see the point.

Shops leave goods on the shelves, does that mean its not my fault if I steal them as the shop has left them there for me to steal. I totally agree that not collecting these boxes was a mistake (as I said before) but you can't say that makes VM to blame for cable fraud.

Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
 

you are totally missing the point and doing it deliberately.

Items in shop are still in the shop they are not "leased" to a customer and not collected when the lease ends. VM and its predecessors know that these boxes they leave uncollected can be modified and used for illicit purposes. I actually owned a chipped analogue box so its not something new. VM and to an extend their staff are responsable for leaving these boxes in circulation

I will give you an example. I had V+ and a V box I called and said I no longer wanted V+ just leave the v box on my account. That was fine but they never picked up the V+ box. A few months later I called and asked then to switch the V+ box back on . I was told there was no record of this box ever being here. Now I could have simply got it modded if I wanted and VM wouldnt have a clue. It would have been there fault for leaving the box here which has a value even if its just stripped for the hard disk

I make no concession for stupidity If I wave my wallet around in a pub then leave it unattended on my table I accept its my fault for leaving it there if it goes missing( which is a damn site better analogy than yours in relation to the topic ;))