[Discuss] Comcast goes all encrypted video in Cambridge

[kentborg at borg.org (Kent Borg)]

On 09/25/2013 05:29 PM, Rich Braun wrote:
> Richard Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Anyone can tap the lines without Comcast knowing it. By encrypting the
>> signals and controlling the decryption side they can lock out the moochers.
> Bingo.  A few years ago I went to my exercise room in the basement to find the
> TV signal blacked-out.  Investigating, I went outside and found that someone
> had destructively cut the RG6 cable in about 3 places.  Just the one cable,
> not the one feeding the upstairs; and not the telephone wires (as a vandal or
> burglar might have done).  Had to have been done by a Comcast enforcer coming
> onto my property without my permission.  Apparently, they still had my address
> listed in their records as 2 separate units instead of single-family.

You mean you had legitimate service, service that you were paying for, 
and they apparently cut the cables carrying that service?

I am so glad we don't have cable service anymore.


-kb