Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.10 $; site convexs Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!convex!convexs!ayers From: ayers@convexs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: Are pay TV decoders legal? Message-ID: <14100009@convexs> Date: Thu, 21-Nov-85 13:07:00 EST Article-I.D.: convexs.14100009 Posted: Thu Nov 21 13:07:00 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 24-Nov-85 03:55:54 EST References: <2700003@prism> Lines: 15 Nf-ID: #R:prism:2700003:convexs:14100009:000:574 Nf-From: convexs.UUCP!ayers Nov 21 12:07:00 1985 > For the last month or so there has been an ad in the Boston >Globe advertising "subscription TV Decoders." I thought these >were illegal. Apparently they're not since this is a good sized >ad (4 x 5 inches), and has been running for awhile... It is not illegal to sell them. It is not illegal to own them. It _is_ illegal to use, or "own with intent to use" (?) a subscription TV decoder of your own. Falls under the "theft of services" stuff. (Or at least that is the way the courts have been deciding lately...) blues, II