[glennaro]

You, and some others on this thread, are thinking legally, not ethically. Legally, you can develop an argument to counter just about anything (as we've all seen in recent years). Ethically there is no counter argument to stealing DirecTV's property; that is, the program signal.

By the way, the language on the DTV Access Card includes:

"The Access Card ... contain(s) trade secrets and are protected by United States and international copyright and other laws. You may not read, access, copy, modify, adapt, translate, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, decode, download, ... the foregoing."

[clamper1797]

You may not read, access, copy, modify, adapt, translate, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, decode, download, ... the foregoing."

Show me in the copyright law where it says I can't read read, access, copy, modify, adapt, translate, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, decode, download, ... the foregoing for MY own uses (not for profit).

[IncPen]

Ethically there is no counter argument to stealing DirecTV's property; that is, the program signal.

If you believe the DCMA is in any way ethical OR legal, then we have something to disagree upon.

The point being made is that by spraying their signal onto my property, like sunlight, it's mine.