30-09-2010, 13:49
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Huddersfield
Age: 52
Services: 4Mb Modem
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Posts: 33
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Re: All Chipped Cable Boxes Going Down
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Originally Posted by TheDon
Wrong.
It's not counted as theft at all.
It's counted as "fraudulently receiving programmes" in section 297 of the copyright designs and patents act (1988), with the maximum punishment being "a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale."
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Off this very forum:
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/article/...-set-top-boxes
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Police have reiterated their warnings to the public that purchasing a modified box that allows the user to watch subscribed channels without paying any money to the relevant cable company, is a criminal offence.
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