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Originally Posted by clydebuilt
A certain somone near me does not seem too happy, must be missing his Skysports.  Trouble is these people don't regard it as theft |
The thing is, a lot of people think of some scrote going up into a small shop, and nicking something from the shelf as theft. They may even think of someone going in to dixons and walking out with an iPod without paying as theft. A certain group think it's alright to nick as a large company wouldn't notice the tiny amount of money you would have spent is missing (in general this is true, but if enough people nick, it's a problem - ask the people who worked for On Digital).
There is also the problem that some people argue that you can only nick physical products. This is most certainly not true.
Having said all that, while I am not a broadband subscriber, so am not affected directly by cable theft (unless someone hooks up a dodgy DTV box and it causes inteference on the network), I can see it can cause problems for VM and I like the service provided by VM, so I'd like them to stay at least vaguely solvent. Which isn't going to happen if too many people nick DTV and Broadband services.