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From: mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Cable descramblers.
Message-ID: <1990Dec30.053845.2527@athena.cs.uga.edu>
Date: 30 Dec 90 05:38:45 GMT
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They are illegal, unless you have the cable company's permission to
use them.  

Under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, it is illegal to
descramble any kind of scrambled transmission without the permission
of the sender.

And anyhow, cable TV isn't electromagnetic radiation -- it's an
alternating current carried to you by cable.