Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ulysses.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!smb From: smb@ulysses.UUCP (Steven Bellovin) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: decoding subscription TV - legality Message-ID: <965@ulysses.UUCP> Date: Wed, 15-Aug-84 18:49:07 EDT Article-I.D.: ulysses.965 Posted: Wed Aug 15 18:49:07 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Aug-84 03:18:58 EDT References: <21100003@ucbcad.UUCP>, <190@ccivax.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 4 There is a crime known as "theft of service"; you can be charged with it for riding a train without paying a fare, for example. I suspect that this would apply to decoding pay cable services as well. It might not stick, of course, but you might run up a nice legal bill in the mean time.