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Originally Posted by Stuart C
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.
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The thing is society is made up of 2 different groups. Those that are prepared to steal and bend the rules and those that are not. The first group can come up with reasons to justify what they do to themselves and try to use it on others. Whether is is a guy who steals cable or downloads an MP3 both are in effect stealing something with finanical value from somebody.
I still believe the majority however fall into the second group and on the main want to be "upstanding citizens" and the like. You only have to see the queues in Game and Gamestation on a weekend seeing how many DS games are being sold or Xbox 360 or Nintendo Wii games all of which can be attained illicitly very easily. The same can be said of music there is still billions being thrown into the music industry the artists and the reconrd companies still make money by the barrowload.
The only difference I see with VM theft of service if the fact it can effect the regular user. I never used to think the tv could really cause a problem until I was informed modified cable boxes sometimes had to have chips sweated off so something could be done instead of just the return path cut and a cloned card which I thought was all that was done prior( ta sirus) However I still think 3rd party boxes if Eurovox Starview Dbox have little impact on the network. All the power to VM though for finally sorting it out but I seriously want to see an end of modem clones ( although I do realise its on the cards)