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North Spore Shop: Cultivation Supplies

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Stealing Cable
    #12195077 - 03/13/10 12:57 PM (14 years, 2 months ago)

How risky is it to steal cable? I know stealing other utilities (like electricity) is fucking stupid - but if I pay a disgruntled cable guy to hook up my cable under the table, how easy is it for the cable company to find out?

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Re: Stealing Cable [Re: Anonymous #1]
    #12206228 - 03/15/10 01:04 PM (14 years, 2 months ago)

They have their ways of finding out.

I used to steal cable all the time.  It usually took them about 2-3 months to figure it out and cut us off. I'd just hook it up again, but eventually they upgraded the cable box (harder to get into) and also some equipment on the pole (???).

The way to steal cable is to hook everyone in your complex up, then they can't tell who it was.  Otherwise (house, etc.) don't steal cable.

There are also other ways to steal cable and get away with it.  You can split a dish subscription with someone else.  Or you can find the live cable wire (if you can get to it) take off the insulation and shielding then insulate the core wire with a little tape, wrap another cable wire around it, and wrap foil around that and ground it to the shield.  That's about the only way to get away with it undetectably.

Any leaking signal and they will eventually find it.  I happened to be able to put an antenna against my wall which had a rusty junction on the other side (outside).  I picked up about 20 channels alright, but they found it in about 6 months since they drive around looking for leaking signal.


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Re: Stealing Cable [Re: fastfred]
    #12218318 - 03/17/10 12:07 PM (14 years, 2 months ago)

I met a guy who had the card that goes in his satellite reciever hacked to get every channel for free. He just had to take the card to someone to change the code every few months. If you look in one of those little free classified ad papers you can probably find someone to rig your cable or satellite.


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