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Originally Posted by Saaf_laandon_mo
To be honest I didnt feel threatened by the hardtarget or any other poster and I get exactly what he means. My point in running a "grass them up" campaign was based on the Benefit fraud adverts that are running on TV. I am sure if virgin ran a similar advert, rather than employing Uma and Samuel L and a lot of money, simply saying "Cable Stealers, We're Onto You - Report A Cable Stealer, 6 months subs paid for" a lot of people wouldn't turn to the dark side.
Whether you knick your cable of not, I don't care. I mean I download movies, I rip off music, I have bought a laptop of a dodgy mate etc etc, so it would be hypocritical of me to shop you.
My idea was simply a respoonse to the question of what can virgin do to stop this.
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Ofcourse, why not?
Then we can start a " shop your local mp for maxing out their expense accounts at the detriment to genuine claimants "
I dont condone what the hackers are doing but there is a market for everything and there are many reasons.
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Originally Posted by zinglebarb
would make only a small difference as the better boxes at the job have never been owned by VM NTL or any of their subsidaries
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Is it known what ratio is being spoken of here?
IE; unowned boxes to owned?
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Originally Posted by PeteTheMusicGuy
I'm sure if VM did start a grass them up for free subs thing there would be a fair few people who would
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Ofcourse providing that would be grasses have never sampled NTL/VM with all its issues
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Originally Posted by Saaf_laandon_mo
Nor did I..... Virgin dont have to advertise how easy it is to steal cable, quite a few have already done it here for them lol
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Its akin to when we were not talking to the ira under maggie thatcher, remember gerry adams on the news with a dubbed over voice? that was pathetic too, but hey we have moved on now and the world is a far safer place
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Originally Posted by mentalis
I thought about chipping my box - but then thought it looked nicer without the scratches.
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Think how many cans of Mr Sheen you could buy with the saved subs
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Originally Posted by Losttheplot
That makes no sense! You'd be cold if you smashed the window. |
AH, but if you left your door open with your key in the ignition, much the same as VM leaving discontinued boxes that can be used again without subs.