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Digital Cable Descrambler
Your cable company, of course, uses a descrambler to charge
you for pay per view and subscription channels. But the question
you are wanting answered is: can you do this yourself with some
sort of device that can’t be detected by your cable company?
Before I answer that question, I want to be sure we are using
the same terminology: A descrambler is not a filter. Nor is
it a digital filter/descrambler. These items filter frequencies;
they don’t descramble them. These are not illegal items to sell
or own. They had a legitimate purpose at one time to improve
picture quality—they were simply called high pass filters, not
digital cable filters. Also eBay does not permit the sale of
any hardware or information that promotes the theft of cable
television (strictly prohibited per eBay’s cable blackbox policies).
So I cannot discuss any illegal devices in this report.
But yes, digital descramblers do exist and a true descrambler
works the same as your cable company’s descrambler box. A few
people have tried to sell a ready-made descrambler on the black
market, but they haven’t lasted for long. They are illegal as
hell.
If you
are caught stealing cable TV we are talking about $10,000+ fines
and prison time.
The odd
thing about bombs and descramblers is that you can find information
on how to build them—but they are illegal to build. You would
have to be extremely—and I mean extremely—electronically talented—and
find the parts—to build one—and there is still no guarantee
the cable companies would not figure out how to detect it tomorrow.
With the new anti-theft technology in the new high definition
boxes it is nearly impossible to beat the system. For all intents
and purposes it will be impossible. Stealing cable TV is a thing
of the past. To beat the new HD boxes, you’d have to be an expert
electronics engineer and probably lucky too.
Don’t
do it! It isn’t worth it!
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