VM Crackdown, no box is safe !

[portbhoy]

DONT PANIC, DONT PANIC

[smoggie]

Trust me there not jelous, They are as much free tv as the rest of us on here, TBH they even do sly ccam etc, Thats how i got into the cable/sat hobby.

Im a sparky and my mate is a plasterer. his wife has been put on the team at VM to crackdown on this and told him to let us all at work know and to unplug our equipment for two weeks starting monday night.

Unless the bosses at VM are conning the staff to think they are doing something there not, then this is true.

Hope your m8's wife isn't the only female on the VW taskforce cause if VW are monitoring this thread they will know who she is

[Fspiders]

I'm an ex spark and in relation to you saying you can trace an illegal lightbulb coming from an outside source.. that maybe so, but you cannot tell which room the lightbulb is in.. or if they're using 2 50 watt bulbs or 1 100 watt bulb, drain is seen as drain while you're outside of the CU. And that's the point people are making in this thread that VM would have to enter the house to ascertain illegal activity. And the problem VM would have at the very first attempt of monitoring a subbed line... yes there is a drain but is it due to a leaky upload/download on a legit modem or just a bad connection on the subbed tv box... do VM risk upsetting a paying customer by trying to force access on the off chance they're wrong? As said above if you ain't subbed then you are probably the first they'll check or disconnect and they're less afraid of upsetting a non VM customer by forcing access.

Just my opinion.. time will tell.

Regards.

[Fspiders]

Hope your m8's wife isn't the only female on the VW taskforce cause if VW are monitoring this thread they will know who she is

Or.... maybe the wife has been caught at something and doesn't want hubby or anyone seeing her on police watch LOL.

[Donnie Darko]

This thread wants nipping in the bud,the original message is now appearing on other boards.

If your going to run a box and defraud a service then be prepared to face any possible consequences end of.

[chongsparks]

Well thankyou to all your posts about this. I did say in post no 1 that i wanted views on this.
I pay for phone, tv and broadband anyways so ~~~~ em. They would have to check all lines with oscilloscopes at the green box. theres no way this would happen as it would take ages and still realy wouldnt prove nothing ( My thoughts now on this )

No other tester would detect anything at all. if they want talkback, they will get it from my sub box with the card in.

Tried phoning mate up about 6 times and no answer from him so i cant get more info but at the end of the day it has proven a small sucess in telling me and a few others this due to the fact that we all sh*t it when we heard.

Im going to sit it out with my DM connected and hope for the best.

CS

[chongsparks]

This thread wants nipping in the bud,the original message is now appearing on other boards.

If your going to run a box and defraud a service then be prepared to face any possible consequences end of.

Ok, ok i was telling fellow users what i heard, thats it.

Close the thread if you must.

[Donnie Darko]

Ok, ok i was telling fellow users what i heard, thats it.

Close the thread if you must.

Aint got a problem mate with what you posted,seems the majority of people become immune to watching free tv and ultimately forget its theft at the end of the day.

[aftermath]

we wont be closing the thread.

you made , what you thought a valid point.

if you cant speak your mind then its not worth posting , and we want people to post and not be afraid too.

you may have been correct in hearing this , i no doubt you did.

but it happens often, and maybe a VM employee is doing the scaremongering.

We will leave it for now.

[Jaffa]

Just out of curiousity, how would they know the difference between using broadband and using a STB as they are the same line, what happens if 3 or 4 pc's are connected to the same line as the STB, can they tell they difference at all ???

[.: JaCkPoT :.]

no jokes here peeps, but i think ChongSparks should decide if he wants this thread to remain open or not. if he thinks that the thread has heavily bbackfired onto him to a level where he is being insulted then he should have a choice whether to keep the thread or have it removed.
Civilisation.

[chongsparks]

Pc's, stb's etc all have there own mac address. non VM boxes dont have a mac because they dont have an inbuilt modem. Dreambox has a mac but that is just for the netork card and down the line is a mass array of frequencies going to the independend systems, ie pc, laptop, vm box

IMO that would be the only way they could tell as there equipment talks back which "could" tell them where the signals are going but a non VM box doesn't talk back which "could" then tell them that the signal is going in house but not talking back, Also line noise due to bad connections etc could give a totally different oscilloscope reading than a non VM box connected in the line.

Note: none of what i have said above may be true but this is a way that "I" personally could see them catching people out.

[caveman_nige]

So many valid points being made here... Good to see the DK come alive and approach a an issue like this... I will stand on the fence as it could be rumour or it could be fact. Howeveri will be biased towards the scaremongering from VM, i have not bothered to switch off my box although (being flash now) i can do it from anywhere in the world from my Nokia N95... Maybe they just want to stop people watching the pay per view boxing this weekend, who knows.....

But i like that we can keep this open for now and not scoff too much... I had made the mistake of calling somebody on here a copper once (on this forum in the shoutbox, turned out he was as dodgy and as deep into his game and more than anybody i know)

[vrlika]

So what are the chances being caught if I am paying monthly sub for BB,Phone and (L) tv package and via coax splitter SV4 ?

[.: JaCkPoT :.]

So what are the chances being caught if I am paying monthly sub for BB,Phone and (L) tv package and via coax splitter SV4 ?

isnt gettin caught what the whole thread is about? different opinions all over.