Sneaky multiroom sky

Stuck Cone

Hey,

Two mates live next door, one pays for sky with multiroom, re routes box to friend B who lives next door, runs telephone line too, cheaper than two subs, sneaky eh?

Dub12Dave

Not really people have been doing similar for years with upc/ntl.

zg3409

This is illegal, but will work.

Dacelonid

zg3409 wrote: »

This is illegal, but will work.

Illegal?? or just against Sky's terms and conditions?

zg3409

Whether it is morally wrong, legally wrong etc. it is theft of service, and can not be discussed here.

Lots of things might be sneaky, but you can be sure Sky would cut you off if they knew it. There are lots of other ways to steal/copy content too but it's not to be discussed here.

swedex

Illegal or not, isn't this dangerous having 2 boxes connected via the phone line with different electrical supply?

MrFrisp

Dacelonid wrote: »

Illegal?? or just against Sky's terms and conditions?

Isn't that the same thing??






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teednab-el

And what about the children ...

PogMoThoin

When I was in college 20 yrs ago, we hung the smallest guy (Frank) upsidedown out the window at 3.00 AM and cut and teed off from the neighbours cable

the_syco

PogMoThoin wrote: »

When I was in college 20 yrs ago, we hung the smallest guy (Frank) upsidedown out the window at 3.00 AM and cut and teed off from the neighbours cable

Classic! How drunk were you doing this? :P

Mugser

I remember a few years ago a friend of mine who wouldn't be anyway technically minded (like me:)) called me to come have a look at his wireless internet as it had stopped working... There was a fairly simple problem; there was no phone line connected to it. Turned out he had been tapped into his next-door-neighbours service without knowing it. The neighbour changed provider and got a new router that had security.:rolleyes:

watty

SexyGuy wrote: »

Isn't that the same thing??

No. Some of Sky's T&C are just civil contract. But others are criminal. Fraud and "Theft of Service" are criminal offences.

Of course "copyright infringement" has damages set by civil court case, not statute and the money goes entirely to "victim". In Criminal cases the State gets proceeds. So when people use Dodgy boxes on UPC cable (criminal theft of service) UPC proceeds with a Civil case at their own expense, the loser pays UPCs costs later. They are not interested in a Criminal conviction.

Getting a "free install" for new customers when you were a customer previously is fraud. Getting cut price "multiroom" for a separate premises is Theft of Service. Both are criminal.

Using a legitimate Sky card card (that is properly paid for) outside of Sky box or designated country is purely breaking the contract, the T&C alone. ALL they can do (and they are entitled to) is terminate the contract and card.

aidan_walsh

Actually illegal or not, this isn't up for discussion here.