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DirecTV to Pursue Pirates
Trinity-Infinity writes "This story from CNNfn details DirecTV's & Hughes Electronics' plans to eliminate the piracy of their signals through a direct-mail campaign. Their source for creating their list of who to mail letters to? Searching bootlegging operations the feds have already busted. It is interesting that as many as 1 million people may be pirating, in comparison to DirecTV's 10 million paying customers." Ya know, I really want to pirate DirecTV, but not to get all the channels... just to get a damn FOX affiliate over my dish so I could use my DirecTivo for The Family Guy and That 70s Show. Is that to much to ask? I already pay for HBO and Sci-Fi channel. Anyway, there's definitely going to be a lot more cracking down on pirated dish stuff: they are getting crazy with the protective measures.
Anyone who wastes their life watching a passive medium like TV deserves to have their arse kicked anyway -- whether they're paying for the service or not.
Come on guys, life's too short -- don't waste your time watching -- get out and start doing!
TV is for people who don't have lives of their own -- surely that can't be anyone who uses /. ???