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Originally Posted by cj136uk
When I lived in Belgium and the Netherlands, you just plugged your tv into the cable socket and received free to air channels via a cable.
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I don't see that this makes it an open system, it just means that the cable company has chosen to/been paid to/been compelled to by legislation to make some channels unencrypted. And sometimes in Europe the costs of cable TV are paid for by leaseholders out of the service charge so are paid indirectly.