Cable theft refers to the practice of cable subscribers obtaining service without paying. With the advent of
digital cable, cases of people obtaining illegal service are rare. Digital cable is more secure and is very difficult to crack. Old cable eqipment used an analog signal that was scrambled by tuning the signal so the picture was unsteady, just as
macrovision does at an attempt to copy a video. The equipment would descramble the signal so that it can be viewed by the subscriber. It also is addressable, meaning that it can be remotely controlled by the company's technical staff. The first case covered by the media was when 317 subscribers were caught in
1991 when the company they subscribed to sent a "bullet" (a video signal that turns off the equipmnent) to their
cable boxes. The boxes were modified, but possibly belonged to the cable company. Months later, an episode of
The Simpsons aired an episode where
Homer steals cable in order to watch a
Pay Per View boxing match with his friends at his house.
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