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Originally Posted by supremus
Yes, this brings us neatly back to my point about how Virgin's own accounting problems have far more of an effect on paying subscribers than cable piracy would have.
Stealing a car is a serious criminal offence. Stealing cable TV is not. Just look at TraxData's story about going to a rough street to disconnect as many as 24 offenders. He didn't go with search warrants and the police, because it's not worth it, unless trying to catch people selling the equipment or services associated with piracy. I think there was even a thread in this very forum some time ago about someone who had phoned his cable company to report a neighbour, and was told they weren't interested,
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Stealing is stealing, doesnt matter if it is a car or a TV service, they are both equally as wrong.
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Originally Posted by Stuart C
Usually (in my experience) people who report a crime have some evidence that a crime has occurred.
Also, how would virgin know who to go after, even assuming they believed us? All we have is an IP, which could be faked. Even assuming the person talking about it was silly enough to fill out their profile with the right details, we still don't know they have.
An analogy: If a stranger used a false name, wore a disguise, walked up to you saying he (or she, as we have no way of verifying Gender either) had stolen a CD player, then walked off, would you report it to the police? How do you think the police would react if you told them that someone you have no hope of identifying nicked a CD player?
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They do have evidence. The evidence is from the person stating they are stealing, admitting it is evidence. If I walked into a Police station and said I had stole something, are you saying they wont do anything due tot he fact I could be lying?
Surely, Virgin/NTL as the owners of the network will have better facilities to be able to trace such people, all though I have no knowledge in this feild, so I dont know.
Lets turn your CD guy around, and say it was my next door neighbour using a cloned modem or stotel TV services, then yes I would as it could be having an affect on my services.