<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/7/28 Nick Morrott <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:knowledgejunkie@gmail.com">knowledgejunkie@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On 28/07/2008, Ian Clark <<a href="mailto:mrrooster@gmail.com">mrrooster@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> 2008/7/28 Mike Holden <<a href="mailto:mythtv@mikeholden.org">mythtv@mikeholden.org</a>><br>
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> > Steve Hill wrote:<br>
> > > Oh, almost certainly... mind you, at my last property the arial was<br>
> > > rubbish and so I received the analogue terrestrial channels from the NTL<br>
> > > cable which was installed, even though I wasn't an NTL customer (they<br>
> > > can't argue that that's a breach of my contract since I didn't have a<br>
> > > contract :)<br>
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> > Digressing slightly though, but isn't that technically known as "theft",<br>
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> I'd actually quite like to know, but I suspect not. What are you actually<br>
> stealing? They only provide 1 to 5, which are also available over the air.<br>
> If it was illegal then they'd make more effort to disconnect once the<br>
> previous occupants had left. I beleive they do it to encourage new<br>
> customers.<br>
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</div>The connection of unauthorised equipment to their private network is<br>
/at the minimum/ a breach of their terms and conditions.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>But in all instances I've seen an adaptor has been added to convert the F connect for the STB to a standard UK tv arial, this has been done when the STB has been removed, so I doubt they'd be able to claim it's unauthorised, if they capped it off, or left it with just the F connector then I can see that could be argued, but in all the cable houses I've had when it's been left disconnected it's been left designed to be plugged into the back of the TV.<br>
<br>It's also not a breach of their T+Cs if you've not signed up to anything.<br><br>Does the telephony legislation cover this kind of network?<br><br>Annoyingly, Virgin don't seem to have anything useful on their website realting to this, and like most big companies don't seem to offer and obvious 'contact us' page.<br>
<br>Hmmmm<br><br>Ian<br></div></div><br></div>