Getting Cable Service Without Paying? :)

[florentin]

Have you ever gotten cable service without paying for it?

come on, be honest

Well, we did, a few years back, for about a year.

We just moved in the house, and connected the cable to the TV. Voila! Free cable. It was comcast.

We shut up about it. I know, not right, but what're you gonna do?

After a few months, a Comcast contractor rang the doorbell and asked us, with a smile on his face, if we wanted to start paying for cable. Apparently, they were doing some work in the area and found we were getting a free ride.

We've been paying since, but we did get almost a year for free

Anybody else ever have a similar experience?

[5M1L3Y]

Just get a D-Box or a Eurovox if you want it for free without them finding out BUT I don't promote illegal activities even though nearly all of Britain is using one without VM(Comcast's counterpart) finding out(Not me of course, just everyone in Bradford who isn't related to me)...

All I'll say is, google is your friend...

[leondz]

I'm pretty up for the idea of satellite once I get enough suitable roofspace for a motorised dish. Check this out! http://www.lyngsat.com/ - you can just about any channel, from anywhere, plus all the feeds (unedited, zero commercial footage, as it's sent from camera to station). I like the sound of that, plus, the idea of having a dish on the roof moving around tracking satellites sounds fantastic

[5M1L3Y]

Originally Posted by leondz

I'm pretty up for the idea of satellite once I get enough suitable roofspace for a motorised dish. Check this out! http://www.lyngsat.com/ - you can just about any channel, from anywhere, plus all the feeds (unedited, zero commercial footage, as it's sent from camera to station). I like the sound of that, plus, the idea of having a dish on the roof moving around tracking satellites sounds fantastic

Is that just a one-off payment for the dish? The Sky Sports and Movies etc. are encrypted though, so how will it bypass the encryption?

I wish they had Fox and the rest of it here....

[leondz]

Originally Posted by 5M1L3Y

Is that just a one-off payment for the dish? The Sky Sports and Movies etc. are encrypted though, so how will it bypass the encryption?

I wish they had Fox and the rest of it here....

You pay for the disk, the mount, the cable, and various grades of card that plug into a PC or digisat receiver. The encryption, well, it's a bit like pirated software, obviously you shouldn't crack it, you definitely shouldn't go and get decryption codes from thriving forums, and never ever use any of the widely-available, stable and tested decryption software. Oh no. That would be naughty.

I think it costs about £200-£250 and a day or two up a ladder getting accurately pointed to start off (you could do less), and you could easily spank a couple of k if you wanted the fancy stuff - probably best left until /after/ you know what you're doing!!

[5M1L3Y]

Of course, I wouldn't want to have gone and spent nearly 500 quid i I wasn't rich and didn't know what I was doing...

[leondz]

I wasn't aware that rich people knew what they were doing anyway!

[5M1L3Y]

Originally Posted by leondz

I wasn't aware that rich people knew what they were doing anyway!

They don't, they can just throw away money at anything without really wondering if they know how to use it...

[krazykizza]

We got the Disney channel for £5.00 a month when you had to pay for it for my sister. We canceled it a month later because she rarely watched it, only they just stopped taking money out all together. For seven months we got the disney channel for free.... AND SKY! They didn't have the face to ask us to pay the difference back!

[5M1L3Y]

What're you blabbering about lol, Disney Channel became free about a year ago for everyone who has the kids package. Only Cinemagic you have to pay for, which is included in the Movies package...