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Originally Posted by saabmania2
No but if i lived next door or a few doors away to that person stealing services from vm, they would be in effect depriving me as they are reducing the bandwidth available to me which would/might deprive me from receiving my full service. which in my book is theft 
gone into hiding now!!!  |
No they aren't.
All the channels are sent down the cable regardless. The same bandwidth is used regardless of if there is a chipped box there or not.
If it was a cloned modem it'd depend on if the courts saw bandwidth as property, but as dishonestly using electricity is it's own seperate crime within the act, and you could claim a cable providing bandwidth is similar to one providing electricity, I doubt they'd see bandwidth as being covered (especially as that's also covered by other acts of law, so assumably it isn't by the theft act).
You'll have to try harder