Thread: All Chipped Cable Boxes Going Down
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Old 23-04-2008, 09:25   #405
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Re: All Chipped Cable Boxes Going Down
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Originally Posted by mcgeezer View Post
Perhaps if Sky and VM gave people fair value for money with their subscriptions then people whould'nt feel the need to steal cable. I subscribe to the medium package which costs £11.50 a month for that - it's a small step up from Freeview... it's shocking value for money. But when you have Sky charging over £40 for a montly subscription to watch crap movies, you'd be best placed to go and join your local Blockbuster store. But what really hurts is is the extortionate prices they charge for viewing football matches, I mean over £10 just to watch a pay per view game ontop of your subscription you already pay!!!

If the ppv games were like £2.50 they'd probably get my business.

Sky and Virgin are the people who are pushing up prices, the people who steel cable are simply a byproduct of their (Sky and VM's) greed.
Apologies if I cause offence, but that view is niaive in the extreme. People nick stuff because they can, not because of some moral stance on how they are being overcharged.

Want evidence? Remember the album Radiohead "gave away"? Well, they didn't give it away as such, but allowed people to pay what they wanted for the download. People still distributed pirate copies.

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Originally Posted by arcamalpha2004 View Post
Perhaps if they took back their discontinued boxes and had a clamp down inside the organisation this topic would not come up.
True.

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Originally Posted by arcamalpha2004 View Post
Why do people buy cheap cigs and beer?
Because it is cheaper
Should they now be called low lifes?
Think about it, that money in tax evasion could be spent to treat sick people in our hospitals.
VM should get their act together instead of moaning about it.
People who call people low lifes should look at themselves very hard.
Important difference: It is legal to buy cheap fags. It is not legal to steal.

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Originally Posted by CableBloke View Post
Forget VideoGuard, It's an NDS company and we don't want to give them any more money
Surely the point of buying an encryption system is that it can't be easily broken? If VideoGuard is the best encryption system, it's in VM's interest to go for it regardless of who owns it..
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