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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
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Posted: Wed Aug 15 18:49:07 1984
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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.