Lets say I have a friend named Tom. Right now, Tom lives at home with his parents. They have satillite. However you spell it. He bought a dual LNB and a receiver for his room. Right now he pays $5 a month for programming, since it’s a second room system. Tonight, from work, he got a second dish, free (legally, mind you). Could Tom, when he moves out, connect his receiver to his dish undetected, and still only have to pay the $5 he paid when he lived with his parents? If not, how would he be found out? This is purely hypothetical. Thanks.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but don’t you have to place the Daisy-chained box into a certain mode to function properly?(I.E.–like the channel 3-4 on a VCR)
I don’t think you simply add boxes in without configuring them, do you? Even if you do, when your DSS dials out, and reports your location, programs watched, Etc, won’t that tip the DSS police off? And, further, when you fill up the memory watching all of those pornos on the Hardcore channel, when the memory fills it’ll disable your PPV capabilities…
If it’s hooked to a phone line, and you can defeat their policing mechanisms, your porno bill will show up on mommy and daddy’s bill–you wouldn’t want them knowing would you? LoL
Of course, I do not own a DSS, so I’m not 100% sure.
You don’t need to have the phone line hooked up so it might work. The phone line needs only to be attached to the main receiver in your house.
I have a dual system and the receiver in the bedroom is not hooked up to the phone. The only problem is that to order a movie I need to go to the other receiver.( Still easier than running a second phone line mind you) When I first hooked up the system it made sense to me that the second receiver should just work when I hooked it up. On this I was wrong. The satellite provider apparently needs to send an activation code for your receiver and this is accomplished through the signal from the dish in some manner.
You err Tom already has an active receiver so this scam just might work. Keep me posted this might have interesting NFL Ticket implications!!
In theory, this should work. I mean, I don’t see how it could not work. You would be using the same receiver, and the same access card, so why wouldn’t it work?
The only thing I can think of that could possibly tip them off is your new satellite’s long/lat coordinates. I’m not sure if they keep a record of every customer’s coordinates. I guess the only way to be sure is to try it.
What type of system does Tom have? DirecTV is a little more agressive about occasionally checking for phone connection to all receivers on an account. I once had the one in my bedroom disabled because my little boy had unplugged the phone connection without our knowing it. If DirecTV, then Tom could have problems. I don’t have Dish Network, but I have heard they are planning to start checks as well.
Another problem is that this would be stealing (hypothetically, of course.) Granted the satellite company won’t put a bullet in a person like I would if he broke in my house and tried to steal my movie collection, but it is stealing just the same. Of course, hypothetical people don’t care much about such things, but I hope most real people do.
What type of system does Tom have? DirecTV is a little more agressive about occasionally checking for phone connection to all receivers on an account. I once had the one in my bedroom disabled because my little boy had unplugged the phone connection without our knowing it. If DirecTV, then Tom could have problems. I don’t have Dish Network, but I have heard they are planning to start checks as well.
Another problem is that this would be stealing (hypothetically, of course.) Granted the satellite company won’t put a bullet in a person like I would if he broke in my house and tried to steal my movie collection, but it is stealing just the same. Of course, hypothetical people don’t care much about such things, but I hope most real people do.
What type of system does Tom have? DirecTV is a little more agressive about occasionally checking for phone connection to all receivers on an account. I once had the one in my bedroom disabled because my little boy had unplugged the phone connection without our knowing it. If DirecTV, then Tom could have problems. I don’t have Dish Network, but I have heard they are planning to start checks as well.
Another problem is that this would be stealing (hypothetically, of course.) Granted the satellite company won’t put a bullet in a person like I would if he broke in my house and tried to steal my movie collection, but it is stealing just the same. Of course, hypothetical people don’t care much about such things, but I hope most real people do.
What type of system does Tom have? DirecTV is a little more agressive about occasionally checking for phone connection to all receivers on an account. I once had the one in my bedroom disabled because my little boy had unplugged the phone connection without our knowing it. If DirecTV, then Tom could have problems. I don’t have Dish Network, but I have heard they are planning to start checks as well.
Another problem is that this would be stealing (hypothetically, of course.) Granted the satellite company won’t put a bullet in a person like I would if he broke in my house and tried to steal my movie collection, but it is stealing just the same. Of course, hypothetical people don’t care much about such things, but I hope most real people do.
I doubt not having the phone line plugged in would be a problem. I haven’t had mine plugged in for the last 10 months, and have been able to watch it without a problem.
