This racket did not involve bogus roof repairs or counterfeit Cuban cigars. It was contraband cable television boxes for $250 a shot, investigators said late last month. Endless hours of free HBO, … ...

The Philadelphia-based cable giant is giving people with illegal television hookups until next Thursday to alert the company, under an amnesty program launched in the Baltimore region.

Two Lehigh County men, described as major dealers involved in the sale of illegal cable television descrambler devices, were arrested by state police at Bethlehem yesterday. Police reported that ...

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The Howard Cable Television technician runs his hand-held “sniffer” near the wires of yet another broken cable TV box outside an apartment complex in Laurel.The sniffer, the Geiger counter of ...

A man reportedly "obsessed" with cable television news pleaded guilty last week to shooting two Latino men after he became ...

The problem is, Race says, "at some point the box locks up, and then you've got to call the cable company to unlock it, and they proceed to download data on all the pay-per-view you watched from ...

So yes, streaming devices can be hijacked with illegal software. If the product description of the box says its's 'fully-loaded,' 'chipped' and offers unlimited movies and sports, it's likely ...

To be clear I don't think these are illegal cable boxes. It is far too difficult to make those and any hacks into the cable networks would be detected and circumvented. These are essentially ...

Illegal converter boxes or descramblers are sold in magazines, by electronic hobbyists and on the Internet. If you use them to bypass the cable company, you are stealing.