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Originally Posted by RINGMEUP
explain why
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I'm not at all certain that it is illegal - did subscribers not have to buy their own analogue boxes (unlike now, where the digital box is supplied by, and remains the property of, the cableco)?
If the box is privately owned, it is legal for a tech to do whatever he likes with it. On the other hand, if he was making a living out of buying, chipping and selling the boxes on, and the purpose of the modification was demonstrably to allow a user to get cable TV without paying for it, then you could possibly make a case against him for conspiracy to steal.
It would still be a breach of terms and conditions to connect a modded box to the network though, and also illegal if the mod allowed a user to get programming without paying for it.