Sigh, using a descrambler is not illegal aslong as you alert the cable company and subscribe to the channels you recieve (I believe unless this is just some extended bs that I have been fed)... Anyway, how about we just try to solve people's problems and assume that they are not attempting to utilize this knowledge to do something illegal. I mean, it is a person's choice to use the knowledge they have for good or bad or whatever, I don't think refusing to dole out little tidbits of knowledge will vastly change things in the big picture... Now, I have tried to find NTSC software descramblers and have turned up absolutely empty, I believe I found a suite that was written for the ATI tvtuner (forget model name), but that was useless seeing as I have a hauppage wintv (actually was a win-tv usb at the time I searched..)... I wonder how well descrambling would work on the software level, I mean by the time your computer touches the signal it has already been converted to a digital signal, so I wonder if descrambling techniques would work digitally, or if it is just analog interference that needs to be solved on the analog level... Sigh... I honestly don't know enough about the hardware on these tv-cards or just general television-lore to be able to answer definately. Best of luck, and keep us posted on your finds!
P.S. Please, pretty please, I do not wish to start a flameware or anything of the type, it has been a long day for all of us... or atleast myself.