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Originally Posted by shawty
Im going to smash your car window and hot wire it and borrow it, heck I might not even bring it back, but thats ok because if you can get it for free, why pay?
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Does this count as an admission that you're planning to commit a serious crime? See what I did there?
I'm curious though, why this bitterness towards pirates? Do you take an equally aggressive approach to co-workers, friends and family or even strangers in the street with illegal MP3s on their iPods?
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Originally Posted by shawty
No, your just clearly making something up that I never said.
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No, I quoted your exact words and just took your illogical statement to its logical extreme to prove how it doesn't hold up to closer scrutiny.
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Stealing is stealing, no matter what you steal, it is still wrong.
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Yes, it is, but that's not what you said. You said they were equally wrong. It's important to make a distinction in the context of what is being discussed here.
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Originally Posted by ATMEGA163
I have no respect for hackers who gets cable for free,, number one rule you have to pay at least the minimum subscription to keep the host in business if not they will end up like on digital then you have nothing. I pay my dues, but cant afford to pay £45+ for all the channels thats not worth it.
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A man must have his honour.
As I said earlier, I find this subject quite fascinating, and have been reading up on it over the last week or so, though I'm still not entirely clear on a few details. If the mods will allow it, I would be interested for someone like yourself to list the various piracy systems available and their functionality. I wouldn't want you to mention any specific brands or how or where to acquire illegal services or equipment, but it might be educational for us to understand exactly what it is we're talking about here, when it comes to chipped boxes, cams, clones, AU, VOD, PPV and so forth. The impression I've got from reading up on this is that the vast majority of illegal boxes use some kind of software emulation to decode the scrambled channels, and that they have no access to non-linear VOD services. I haven't been able to confirm that there are any boxes around, certainly not in great numbers, that can access non-linear VOD, due to such boxes having to identity themselves to Virgin's servers to initiate a VOD request, though it does seem like certain boxes can scan for active VOD channels, and watch what other people have ordered, though they won't be able to pause and rewind.
I hope this isn't crossing any forum rules, if it can be kept in broad terms?