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In Reply to: And charge $30 for a "basic" is ethical ? (nt) posted by Ceap Chip on June 02, 1999 at 13:40:11:
Last time I checked, TV was free via the airwaves. If you don't like the charges, don't subscribe. If you steal their signal, you are a thief and a criminal.
Pricing of cable is indeed rediculous ... and 30$ for basic is unethical in areas where there is no competition. And in most apartments you will can subscribe to the only cable serivce provider. Thats not to say stealing of signals is fine ...But isn't it funny that the increase in cable changes has come about when the satellite network is expanding like never before (because of fcc ruling prohibiting apartment owners from prohibiting dishes) !
...either, but it is obviously wrong to steal entertainment programming because we think the price is too high! I think the price of a Mercedes coupe is too high...is it okay for me to steal it? I think my phone, electricity, gas and water prices are too high...should I steal those services? I'd steal food to eat if I was starving, but the logic these eletronic thieves use to justify theft of non-essential services is ridiculous.
If you steal that Mercedes, there is 1 less Mercedes available for the
dealer to sell. If you steal phone service, there is a miniscule amount
of communications bandwidth that cannot be sold to others. The same
idea holds true for the electric, gas, and food.If you steal a cable signal, NO ONE loses any product. The only thing
lost is profit.
I live in the burbs of Chicago and CAN NOT receive any USABLE signals in my apartment. We are monopolized by TCI, which is a horrid experience. They have the area reserved for their service only. We HAVE NO CHOICE OF SERVICE! They take advantage of that fact and hike up prices and offer very poor customer service. Their excuses to me for the bad service and performance were in the form of "We are not a necessity like electric or gas." So to receive my local Chicago stations I'm stuck with this poor company. For other channels, I recently started using Dish Network with excellent service and performance. Your right that stealing isn't right, but there certainly isn't any justice in letting TCI get away with STEALING from us! When the tables are turned, it's a wrong. Kind of hard to swallow those reasonings.
Since getting Dish Network, I haven't had time to downgrade my TCI service to broadcast channels only. They still want to charge $12 for just those! I took back my digital box and told her just the basic channels I want to retain, not the expanded basic channels. She told me that a $30 charge would be added to downgrade my service to only broadcast channels! After telling her a few choice words, I completely dropped the entire cable service. What a scam! It that even legal? If that's not theft, I don't know what is!!! I told her that my town council will be notified of the scam they have going, when trying to downgrade service. I know the town council already wants them out of our service area, but laws have kept them here.
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Normally I would agree with you. Little story: Several years ago, my folks moved to a rural area. Cable service stopped about 1/4 mile from their house. They inquired about getting service and was told no way, not if we have string more cable. What if we string the cable ourselves at our expense? Still no way. Can't be done. Nope. Ok, fair enough. My folks bought a satellite dish. This was back when they were all the big ones and most stuff was free if you had the dish. The cable company then tried to claim they were owed money by anybody who had a dish because they were "stealing" the signal. Several cable companies then tried to get legislation passed requiring people like my folks to pay them for a service they refused to provide and to make a profit off of the equipment purchased by individuals.
Now this doesn't justify stealing and although I have found cable companies to be so obnoxious and over priced that I haven't had cable for 15 years, neither have I stole the signal. OTOH given how they tried to steal from my folks and others, my feeling regarding the theft of their signal is that it couldn't happen to more deserving people.
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