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Originally Posted by TheDon
Now, to get back on topic, anyone else notice they're really pushing the report dodgy boxes thing? there was a section in Play that was with this months bill about reporting people with them. I wonder how many people will actually bother as a huge amount of people seem pretty open about having them and in near enough every pub you can find someone who can sort you out with one so it's not like people are hiding underground with them.
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I don't know what Play is, but there's no downside for the cable companies in sending out snitch requests like that. Doesn't cost them a thing, and it makes it seem like they're being pro-active in cracking down on piracy. If they really wanted to get serious, though, they'd send some people out to disconnect the thousands of live cable feeds they have going into non-subscriber homes, or maybe even make some sort of effort to collect old set top boxes, so they don't end up chipped at car boot sales or wherever people get these things from. One of my friends used to be a Cable & Wireless customer, but cancelled his service many years ago, and he still has his two Pace boxes. Nobody even bothered asking for them back. VM may have stepped up their efforts a little bit, but I wouldn't really say it amounts to getting serious. I'd be interested in seeing them try to prosecute individual users, if only as a scare tactic or to set a legal precedent. The trouble is, if they're not successful, which could very well be the case, they would lose the ability to scare people with bluff letters threatening legal action.