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Caught in the act.
- Source :
- Forbes; 3/24/1986, Vol. 137 Issue 6, p42-42, 1p, 1 Black and White Photograph
- Publication Year :
- 1986
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Abstract
- The article discusses the problem of Home Box Office (HBO) regarding pirating of signals. The HBO discovered that 50 cable operators were among those who hooked their signal and sold them to their own customers. Due to pirate system, the company lost more than 3 million every year. As an initiative, HBO sign up its freeloading satellite dish owners after the company scrambled its signals. At present, satellite dish owners cannot pick HBO without payment for a descrambling device which the company can only disconnect.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00156914
- Volume :
- 137
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Forbes
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- 19881956