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Motorola Digital
Cable “Black Box”
You’ll find many con artists online selling
boxes like this one, but similar pitches for boxes of different
makes and models are also prevalent. Beware of “digital cable
blackboxes!” To the best of my knowledge, no digital cable blackbox
in existence today actually works like the scam artists claim.
I do believe some people have tried to alter digital cable boxes
to get them to work, but I have yet to hear of one single success
story.
In studying products like these, I tested
a Motorola blackbox from a company called [Censored]. [Censored]
actually did do something with the box to alter it. Look at the
back of the box in this photo I took below:
The square metal attachment and the two black cables shouldn’t
be herez
(see yellow box below).
This entire metal protrusion and two black
cables sticking out of the box were added by [Censored]. What
is it supposed to do? Will this really get you free digital cable?
It’s really hard to tell honestly. One thing I can tell you for
sure is whatever they did here did not work at all. Maybe they
just add something to the box that makes it look like they did
something? After receiving this box I tried to contact [Censored]
numerous times for support and every single contact attempt I
made went completely ignored. They were obviously not interested
in supporting their non working digital cable blackbox. Since
receiving this box I have not been able to speak with anyone at
[Censored] one single time.
UPDATE: I received an interesting email from an employee
of the Motorola Broadband Communications Sector. Apparently
the attachment above does in fact come standard with many
cable boxes. Thus if this box was modified in any way at
all, the modifications must have been internal. Here is
the email:
That silver box on the back of the DCT2000 is an rf-bypass
box, it comes standard with many types of our cable boxes.
If a box is purchased legitamately, the installation instructions
would have come with it:) Its purpose is to let analog cable
through to a tv/vcr while still having use of your digital
"tv out" connection. That's its ONLY purpose.
It will never let you "bypass" the encryption
system or anything else for that matter. Just an fyi since
i appreciate, for once, an internet site not condoning the
theft of digital cable.
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No matter what was altered in the blackbox
above, here’s my take on why this box never worked: Digital
cable boxes must be activated by your local cable company in
order for them to work. Once a box is activated, your cable
company is going to try to poll it. If your box does not respond
to the polling signal then you are going to be booted off the
network. No matter what people do to alter digital cable boxes,
they’re not going to beat the cable company’s box activation
requirements.
That doesn’t stop the con artists from making all kinds of
elaborate claims, however. People trying to sell you boxes
like this will claim they not only block your Pay per View billing
from being sent back to your cable provider while allowing your
box to communicate with your cable network anyway, they claim
the box will also descramble all Premium Channels such as:
Pay-Per-View channels
Adult channels
Movie channels
Special order sport channels
Special events
Basic channels
Extended Basic channels
If this were true, it means you could get ALL programming,
Pay per View events, and Premium channels entirely free. Essentially,
boxes with claims such as these were created to beat the system
in every respect. Or so the person trying to sell it to you
says, anyway.
So, how does [Censored] claim the “modified” Motorola blackbox
above works? First and foremost, they tell you that this is
the actual box that many digital cable providers use, such as
Comcast (which is true). Then the story continues like this:
“These boxes are purchased at low prices directly from Mexico. The
boxes are then opened and modified. First, the ‘memory chip’
that works with the Pay per View component of the box is replaced
by a ‘zero memory chip.’ Essentially, the box has no ability
to remember anything at all. Thus the box cannot possibly transmit
billing for the Pay per View programming you order. Second,
this box is pre-programmed and pre-activated to receive all
pay premium channel programming.”
Well, all of that sure sounds good. Of course, unlike analog
cable that was a one-way communication medium, digital cable
is a two way communication medium. Thus even if such a box
with a “zero memory chip” actually existed, your cable company
could poll your box and would immediately know that you had
a modified box. Your cable services would be shut down in no
time flat. If ANYTHING inside your cable box is altered, it’s
most likely your cable company will know because they can “talk”
to your box at any time, and poll it for anything they’d like.
Plus as I mentioned above, digital cable boxes must be activated
in order to work at all (a box cannot “learn” your local cable
system simply by being plugged into the network). Digital cable
boxes have seriously good technology folks. And if you think
the technology in these boxes is good, the anti-theft technology
coming out in brand new high definition cable boxes is even
better.
Bottom line: Don’t buy cable blackboxes that are advertised
to work with digital cable. If you do, you’ll be throwing away
your money. There are numerous scammers out there willing to
take advantage of would-be cable pirates looking to get free
digital cable. NEVER SEND SOMEBODY A PERSONAL CHECK.
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