Re: Another Cable Thief Arrested

Fuck Comcast!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

> November 21, 2003
> Catonsville man gets 18 months for stealing cable
> Robert J. Terry
> Staff
> A Baltimore County District Court judge has sentenced a Catonsville man to
> 18 months in prison for stealing cable, Comcast Cable said Friday.
>
> Gregory Leach, 27, was found guilty of possessing an altered cable box
that
> enabled him to thwart encryptions sent out by Comcast and receive services
> he wasn't paying for, including premium channels and pay-per-view movies,
> the cable giant said.
>
> Baltimore County police found Leach with the altered cable box while
> executing a search and seizure warrant.
>
> Comcast works with law enforcement agencies on spotting and confiscating
> illegal cable devices. The company has also fanned out a 50-person team of
> technicians going door to door to match cable service with customer
records.
>
> Comcast Cable counts 800,000 customers in Maryland and Delaware, and the
> company employs more than 2,000 people in the region.
>
> "We encouraged everyone who was receiving cable illegally to take
advantage
> of our amnesty campaign and turn in their illegal equipment with no
> questions asked," said Brian A. Lynch, area vice president and general
> manager for Comcast's Baltimore metropolitan systems. "This individual is
an
> unfortunate example of what can happen when someone does not heed our
> warnings and chooses to actively steal cable services."
>
> Comcast says cable theft costs local governments and municipalities
millions
> of dollars in lost revenue annually and causes signal leakage that
adversely
> affects signal quality and other communications systems, including those
> used by aircraft.
>
> The National Cable Television Association estimates the cable industry
loses
> nearly $6.6 billion in revenues each year to cable theft.
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