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Poll : cable modem internet with free cable tv ?

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jimmyhaha

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just come across this article ?

hmm.. is this legal ?

so paying like $40-60 for cable modem only will get u "free" basic cable tv ?

I was told that unless the cable company do something in their backbone, there is NO way to seperate the signal of cable modem and tv

if the technician put a filter in splitter in your cable modem, u can remove it and u get basic tv.. ?
 
I removed mine to find about 4 months later to find a new one there, so I said to hell with it, I've already got Dish Network.
 
Originally posted by: jimmyhaha
just come across this article ?

hmm.. is this legal ?

so paying like $40-60 for cable modem only will get u "free" basic cable tv ?

I was told that unless the cable company do something in their backbone, there is NO way to seperate the signal of cable modem and tv

if the technician put a filter in splitter in your cable modem, u can remove it and u get basic tv.. ?
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It flat out says it's not legal...
Whether it's ethical or not depends on your sense of ethics. Some would say that since they are sending an unencrypted signal into your home, you have every right to do with it as you please. This is especially more powerful an argument now that cable companies do not generally own the cable equipment inside your home as they used to.
Others would say that it is unethical because you are receiving a service you did not pay for. If someone leaves their car unlocked with the keys in the ignition, do you just go take it and drive away? No--it's unethical.

I fall on the latter side. I have cable internet but not cable TV, and while I'm fairly certain I could hook my line to my All-In-Wonder, I choose not to. I bought a set of rabbit ears for $10, and I use them once in a blue moon when I actually get bored enough to watch TV.

 
About 13 million Americans get a free ride as a result, compared with the more than 64.5 million paying cable subscribers, according to research firm The Carmel Group. The losses are significant. The firm estimates that the industry misses out on about $6.2 billion annually from piracy.
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Why do they always say the are "losing" that money or are "missing out" on it? If those people didn't pirate it, how many would actually buy the cable? IMO, not many.
 
On another subject

I have cable internet and tv. There is a filter on my line which blocks HBO, Showtime, and Scinemax. That filter also causes stability upon my internet so they removed it thus allowing me to watch those channels. So I'm in a sort of cunmdrum(sp?).
 
well... i pay under $10 for my basic cable tv.
i think around $8 or so.

it's suppose to only give me about 18 channels or so.
but when the installation guy came, he said that the company is experiencing a shortage of those block out filters.
so he said we can just enjoy the standard cable service... at their cost.
🙂

no complaints here.

 
where is this filter they put on the line though? for apartments it is outside somewhere i think, usually locked up i think?
 
On the line going into the house the actual filter will be in a plastic case to protect it from the weather and such. I almost ran it over with the lawn mower.......
 
possibly.

but from my previous experiences, they've attached the filter right at the first point where the cable line comes in.

you can just remove the filter like you'd unhook the coaxal cable from vhs.
 
i've heard cable companies like att have some sort of periodic security checks for unauthorized connections to their cable tv services. But how do they conduct the security checks? Do they go door by door to check people's cable box outside the house or they have something more advance to detect the unauthorized usage. it seems really costly if they had to go door by door, but who knows what they would do to bust the thieves.
 
Last I heard, Time Warner doesn't care if my cable modem cable is split to a TV. In fact, the cable modem installer hooked up the splitter for me. I'm only allowed to receive a limited range of channels if I don't subscribe to the "standard package." Channels 24 through 65 are filtered out, and that's where all the most entertaining channels reside on my local system. Therefore, I see nothing wrong with it, as long as I'm not defeating any of the cable company's filtering.
 
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