Path: utzoo!mnetor!cxsea!blm
From: blm@cxsea.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk
Subject: ICE comes to satellite TV
Message-ID: <2309@cxsea.UUCP>
Date: 28 Dec 87 17:30:07 GMT
Reply-To: blm@cxsea.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
Organization: Computer X Inc.
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Quoted without permission from the December 21, 1987 issue of Electronic
Engineering Times, "Satellite Pirates Under Attack":

   "The SBCA/MPAA [Satellite Business Communications Association/Motion
    Picture Association of America] Piracy Task Force has declared war on
    three fronts.  The first involves launching massive electronic
    countermeasures...
    GI's [General Instrument, maker's of descrambler system] VideoCipher
    division would be responsible for uplinking the ECM [electronic
    countermeasures] software.  Most likely, it would cause a pirate's
    box to flash sporadically or "go dark", refusing even paid-for
    signals and shutting down other boxes tied in to the pirate."

Even ignoring the Electronic CounterMeasures/Intrusion Countermeasures
Electronics similarity, does this sound familiar to anyone?
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