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Originally posted by Furious_Male
Ok I have not been very clear in what I am trying to convey.
The DirecTV signal is a line of site signal. Some people can not even pick up a signal or get the service. For those that can get the service you need to be VERY precise when lining up your dish with the satellite. You are not using a wave that has bounced off someone elses house you are pointing your dish at the ACTUAL satellite.
I will admit I do not know the details about what waves are bouncing around and where if you are in plain site of one of the 5 DirectV satellites, but to capture the signal it does take effort and you are not using a signal that is just randomly bouncing around. The effort to get the signal and decode it is theft. You can get as technical as you want but you are NOT utilizing a wave bouncing off a house or anywhere else that is "your property". You need to be in the line of site. You then need to decode the signal. That is theft.
To say that the waves bouncing around your property make it yours if you can crack it is insane. You cant pull a signal from pointing your dish at a tree in your yard. It wont work.
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Lets see the satellites are up in the sky (granted a particular part of the sky) but unless you live somewhere pretty shitty the sky is always line of sight.
If you talk loud enough that I can hear you on my property is it stealing to listen to your conversation? Would it be stealing if you spoke in an uncommon language and I had to use a translation dictionary?
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