Re: Another Cable Thief Arrested (by the Cable-Nazis)

What's the point of posting this?
Ohhhhhhhhhhh,....run away, run away! Quick, let's disconnect our pirate
cable box!
When was the last time ANYONE saw a press release like this one before now?
The chances of getting arrested (OR charged) is zilch point shit.
90% of the time, these guys get caught is because they bragged to their
neighbors (who are paying for service) that they (the braggart) are getting
it for free.

Like software companies worth billions (who can easily afford to lobby for
personal laws), they CAN get away with this crap.

Nevertheless, they will NEVER come close to "capturing" 1/100th of those
freebie grabbers.
RIP THOSE BASTARDS OFF EVERY CHANCE YOU GET!!!!


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> 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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