Originally Posted by biftek

not exactly sure how your cable system works but if its the same as ours , the cable is just basically scramblers with color inversion , dscaler and a tvtuner for the pc might do the trick

i hardly doubt that descramblers all run on there own freq , that would require massive bandwidth on the cable line to run a few hundred thousand freqs all streaming close to the same thing , the system that we use here is just the box has its own seriel number , the ops are able to switch a box on or off , but with a mod chip you can get around this

as for getting tracked down , it is a bit easy for them to do it , but its time consuming , they can do some maths to work out legit customer drain on the cable compared to overall drain by that they can then guess that X amound of ppl are pirates , what they then need to do it come out to the network tap into the juction and manually track the house down , a time consuming process

digital cable , any idea of the encryption that they are using , once you know the encryption being used you can get a better idea if it is able to get free cable