[markomalley]

Sounds like theft of service to me. Probably should not to be discussed on FR.

I have no problems with paying for the cable subscription. It's just the renting of the boxes.

[Hawthorn]

>> I have no problems with paying for the cable subscription. It’s just the renting of the boxes <<

Understood. But if you were using some kind of free app with your computer to decrypt the signals, I think you’d need to know a decryption key. The cable company is not going to give you that key, however, because they’d be afraid of your selling it to thousands of other computer geeks.

In other words, I imagine the only way to use your app would be to have a key that had been obtained illegally. That’s why your idea would seem to verge on signal theft.