WRONG AGAIN ... now please tell this 25 year ... advanced degreed electrical engineer ... who has worked with these signal for a multitude of years that I am wrong.
May want to get a refund on that degree... Besides the fact that I've already proven that many of your previous "Wrong again" statements were inaccurate... Go ahead and try to watch DBS with the dish inside. You won't without an amplifier.
Lastly ... the eeprom that is on the smart card is publically and readily available from Motorola and MANY other smaller companies. Programming it is easy and is done for a million other reasons than DAVE (Digital Audio Video Entertainment). These guys were selling equipment that could be used to decode satellite signals. BUT they could be purchased for other reasons. I happen to work in the industry. what i object to is the passing of BAD LAWS just so some company can make a buck.
Just because it's easy to steal from old ladies doesn't make it okay. Don't like the law? Work to get it changed.
Lastly is it theft just because a company says so ... is my neighbor stealing my music because he's listening to my very loud stereo at his house. I don't think so ... nor do I believe decoding a signal that is in my house for my own non profit use is theft either.
Again, don't like the law? Get it changed. If you are a Dish or DirecTV customer and you are pirating additional channels other than those you are paying for, you are a thief. It doesn't really matter what you think. By activating your service, you agreed to the residential agreement, like it or not. Ignorance of your obligations is not a valid defense...
It's the liberal's universal dictum: "Allow me to be irresponsible, and in return I'll allow you all to pay for the consequences of my irresponsibility."
You better tell that to a few of my friends AND my boss since we do exactly that at work cause we are laugh at you right now doing what YOU say we can't