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Anonymous-0 · Jan 16, 2009

Well we found a way to get Direct TV for 25.00 bucks a month! My neighbor ordered it, told them he wanted 4 recievers, we all found sattlite dishes and mounted them on our houses. The main bill is in his name, but we all have cards, and the reciever so we all watch what ever we want. 4 people can watch cable for the price of one. Nothing illeagle about it. So anyone out there who lives next family or good friends you can save a bundle. Sometimes if my neighbor has Direct Tv out for a up date, we have to bring our recievers over to him, so it dont look funny, him having all these recivers to his name and none around.

Anonymous-0 · Jan 16, 2009

No, its not illeagle. He pays his bill every month, who's to say he dosent have a box in 4 rooms of his house? Rather than 3 down the street in other homes?

thurlow · Jan 16, 2009

If it's not illegal, why not have the service people come to your house(s) for the updates? Be interesting to see how 'legal' Direct TV thinks it is.............

Anonymous-0 · Jan 16, 2009

MY neighbor wanted the updates, not me. He wanted HD tv, not me. So it has nothing to do with my home.

Anonymous-0 · Jan 16, 2009

You will get caught and then you wont be able to get any cable type reception at all there are fines they have more money that you. I sure would not be posting this info on-line as they have proof of what you are doing.

Anonymous-0 · Jan 16, 2009

alot of people take their receivers up to a cabin or camping on the weekends is that legal? not trying to start anything but where do you draw the line ?

MarkB_MI · Jan 16, 2009

It's a violation of his agreement with DirecTV, and if he gets caught they could bill him several hundred dollars. It's all in the agreement that he said he read when he signed up. He also agrees to have ALL receivers connected to the same landline telephone. The fact that your receivers aren't plugged into his phone line is a tipoff.

Will DirecTV enforce the contract? Probably not. Can they? You betcha.

I actually took the time to read my agreement when I signed up. It's about twenty pages long, and basically you agree to let DirecTV to do pretty much anything they want, and if you do anything wrong you're 100 percent liable. They even have a clause that says if their computers get infected from a virus from your computer, you agree to pay damages. (I have no idea how that's even possible, but it's in the contract.)

By the way, you're not dealing with rank amateurs here. A few years ago, DirecTV figured out that hackers were cloning smart cards. They figured out who was doing it and zapped the cards, writing the message "GAME OVER" in the cards' memory as a message to the hackers who cloned them.
DirecTV zaps cloned cards

plow hand · Jan 16, 2009

Joe what do you think about whats hapening with that OT below

Anonymous-0 · Jan 16, 2009

yes Gene, he should pay for his own cable. Cheaters always get caught in the end. h

Hobo,NC · Jan 16, 2009

They can pull up to yer mail box and tell if you are receiving the signals,,,, put 2 and 2 together,,, they are not worried about the guy that pays for 4 boxes he's cool,,, now the guy that's not pay'n and pull'n the signal into his house,,, he's in trouble if he gets caught,,, so no they don't have to come into their house for proof

IH2444 · Jan 16, 2009

Ahh but the GPS in the satellite reciever....

IH2444 · Jan 16, 2009

If you hook the other revceivers up to phone lines you will get caught.

Hurryin_Hoosier · Jan 16, 2009

From their customer service agreement:

2. You agree to provide true and accurate information about the location of your receivers. If we detect that any receiver is not regularly connected to a land-based telephone line, we may investigate and, if it is determined that the receiver is not at the location identified on your account, we may disconnect the receiver or charge you the full programming subscription price for the receiver.

Potentially - the customer named on the agreement could be charged the $100 bucks per month per receiver for the term of contract used up to that point.

kyplowboy · Jan 16, 2009

knew an old boy in college that got into make'n them chips. Could run a small dish into an old computer then into the tv. Got over 600 channels. He sold'm for $150 each. About once a month the satelite company would zap the computers and you would have to put a new flopy disk in it and it would work for another month or two. I think he ended up get'n busted for something else and when they found all the hacker chips in his house he ended up gett'n 5 years for it. I don't know if any one around still has one of his set ups or not.

Dave

railhead · Jan 17, 2009

wrong, the signal is coming from a satellite potentially to every house in America IF they have the right equipment to receive it, decode it and view it. There is no way they can drive up and tell if you are watching their product unless they have devices to hear through your walls. As for GPS units in the receivers, I doubt that too. I know several guys I work with that take their sat rcvrs in travel trailers all over the US, watch it and never get questioned. I see big rigs at truck stops with them mounted on the truck too. they are certainly not stationary. they can probably pull this off and get away with it. BUT the last thing I would do if I were doing this would be get on the world wide web and TELL THE WHOLE WORLD! this is proof that we aren"t dealing with a rocket surgeon here. An empty can rattles the most.

Anonymous-0 · Jan 17, 2009

Yes thats legal you arent trying to cheat anyone just moving receiver to temp location. This guy has signed an agreement to have 4units in HIS house not one here and one there so forth he will get in trouble big time way sooner if he dont shut up his mouth then he wont get any service from anyone he will be black-balled.

Anonymous-0 · Jan 17, 2009

Never tell where the fish are biting or where you can score.2 good rules to follow.

Anonymous-0 · Jan 17, 2009

There are Federal laws on that type of stuff.Remember when you could get your big dish receiver bugged so ya didnthave to pay well some even went to jail heavy fines i even dealt with a dealer who suddenly wasnt there got caught $20,000 fine and gave the business to his worker then worked out of his home bugging them and got caught again.It aint worth it.

SJ · Jan 17, 2009

Cmon guys who has a user name called dtv on hold.
Anyways if it is a true post,its called stealing, no matter how ya look at it.And yes it always seems like theres thousands of people out there getting away with it.Yeah theres a few Im sure.Its like a gambler telling war stories,the only ones he has are the ones where he won,LOL
Stan

John M · Jan 17, 2009

You must not think to highly of your neighbor, or your just a low life peice of scum whos to cheap to pay his own bills!

Mike (WA) · Jan 17, 2009

What these guys are doing is obviously illegal, but you do bring up an interesting point- the signal is out there, and if you can build your own receiver and antenna, can they do anything about it? It would have to be without any of DirectTV's equipment, of course- but electronic stuff can be built by anyone with enough savvy. Different than the old cable tv "decoder" boxes, of course, because with cable, the cable company owns the cable lines, and whatever comes over them- but the airwaves are supposed to be public domain, and there for the receiving.

Fancy Farm · Jan 17, 2009

Quit trying to be a crook and subscribe like a normal person. You will sleep better.

Michigan A · Jan 17, 2009

I don't care much about the dtv change because in my opinion there is very little on tv worth watching. I have dish network and probably get about 200 channels. Most of the time there is nothing worth watching. I used to like the History and TLC channels. Now they have gang shows on History and decorating shows on The Learning Channel. I would cancel it but my wife watches a couple hours each day.

northener · Jan 17, 2009

Here in Canada you can buy a direct receiver for 200 dollars. This receiver will pick up all the tv cnannels. I dont own one but am told the receivers are legal because there are hundreds of free channels on the satelites and these receivers pick up those channels.Id like to see the goverment put a stop to the tv companies charging to watch the channels which they get paid by the advertisers to watch. Its like buying a hat with a ad on it.They force you to buy packages with tons of channels which are duplicated or are in a foreign language or are garbage. Why would a tractor guy watch Martha Stuart? Thats my rant for the year>

Anonymous-0 · Jan 18, 2009

I remember you saying a while back that man made rules were made to be broken. OOOPS

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