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Originally posted by Buff
It's insane that it can be illegal to decode signals being beamed into your own house. If you transmit something all over the world, and it enters my property, I should have the right to
1) Charge you for beaming your signal across my property
2) Decode your signal and do whatever the fuck I want with it.
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The courts have ruled that it's ok for people to use spyware to steal our traffic because it's being done on the computer of the person seeing the webpage.
Why is that different here?
If it's ok for spyware companies to hijack traffic and copyright protected content that they don't own, why is it illegal for someone to hijack a video signal at their house?