Satellite Dishes in Canada are now against the law - GoFuckYourself.com

Dreamman010 · 04-30-2002, 03:49 PM

"The high court decided Friday that decoding encrypted U.S. signals not officially allowed into Canada was against the law - and the government pledged to an immediate crackdown against dealers. "

"At least 500,000-1 million Canadians use one of those systems to watch unauthorized TV from the States. "

http://www.pulse24.com/Business/Top_...0-001/page.asp

Seems that the US companies hit the Canadian gov't hard.

Biggy2 · 04-30-2002, 03:50 PM

yeah, the satellite companies came down real hard on this the past few years...

FlyingIguana · 04-30-2002, 03:52 PM

satellite dishes aren't against the law. just illegal ones that rip off direct tv and shit

yys · 04-30-2002, 03:59 PM

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Originally posted by Dreamman010

Seems that the US companies hit the Canadian gov't hard.

It wasn't the U.S. companies that complained; they were making money off all the Canadians who paid them every month. It was the Canadian providers who complained that they were losing customers to the 'grey market' dishes. This just means that if you don't know how to program your own card then you better be prepared to hand over a lot more $$$$$$ for it to be done then you would have a week ago.

The government isn't going after people with dishes; their going to go after the people who provide the 'hacked cards' and the equipment to do it.

Dreamman010 · 04-30-2002, 04:06 PM

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Originally posted by yys

It wasn't the U.S. companies that complained; they were making money off all the Canadians who paid them every month. It was the Canadian providers who complained that they were losing customers to the 'grey market' dishes. This just means that if you don't know how to program your own card then you better be prepared to hand over a lot more $$$$$$ for it to be done then you would have a week ago.

The government isn't going after people with dishes; their going to go after the people who provide the 'hacked cards' and the equipment to do it.

Yeah, that's what the article is about. Crackdown on dealers. Users don't have anything to do with that. As soon as they eliminate the dealers, the illegal distribution will stop. (Although I think it'll never happen)

kong · 04-30-2002, 04:19 PM

Fuck em... if Canadian cable and satellite wasnt so shitty, I wouldnt need direct tv.

Thank god I bought that hu programmer, :-)

playa · 04-30-2002, 04:26 PM

can someone tell me how to aquire these new cards,,, current ones my friends had,,,said there no good cuz they changed to some new type of stuff

Dreamman010 · 04-30-2002, 04:31 PM

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Originally posted by playa
can someone tell me how to aquire these new cards,,, current ones my friends had,,,said there no good cuz they changed to some new type of stuff

Well, if you live in Toronto or GTA, just open Star Classifieds in the saturday Toronto Star paper and you'll see a lot of ads. They also have an online site - www.starclassifieds.com

JFK · 04-30-2002, 05:05 PM

they have bigger ads in the Toronto Sun

zubr · 04-30-2002, 06:43 PM

thats nice to hear... no more free video feeds on tv

playa · 04-30-2002, 07:32 PM

ok so what exactly is needed,,,,

i got a satellite system installed the box and everything,,,

now what else is needed

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