Ethics question about cable TV

[Jay2]

Well “out in Chi-town burbs”…

It is as black and white as a pair of scissors. END OF STORY!
Cut the coaxial cable hooked up to your TV/VCR and there’s the end of this discussion.

What does it matter that someone did or didn’t turn off the signal? YOU (or the OP) is not paying for the signal and is therefore stealing it from the provider.

Go to Radio Shack, buy a set of $4.99 rabbit ears, dig in the junk drawer for scissors & a screwdriver. Cut the cable, hook up the ears and this argument is closed.

 

[SMHW]

Well “out in Chi-town burbs”…

It is as black and white as a pair of scissors. END OF STORY!
Cut the coaxial cable hooked up to your TV/VCR and there’s the end of this discussion.

What does it matter that someone did or didn’t turn off the signal? YOU (or the OP) is not paying for the signal and is therefore stealing it from the provider.

Go to Radio Shack, buy a set of $4.99 rabbit ears, dig in the junk drawer for scissors & a screwdriver. Cut the cable, hook up the ears and this argument is closed.

Then the cable company would have robbed the OP of his coaxial cable (or whatever other wire might have been used). Did you miss the part about it being the OP’s coaxial cable/wiring and not that of the cable company? The cable company’s signal could be said to be invading the OP’s personal network of wires. He had the right to expect that he had his own signal (from the outdoor antenna) coming through his wiring and not that of an outside entity.

(If he has an outdoor antenna then it’s probably because rabbit ears are not sufficient for where he lives.)

As it turns out the OP took steps to remedy the problem and as a result saved the cable company from having to pay a technician to do what was rightfully the responsibility of the cable company in the first place.

 

[OutinChgoburbs]

Then the cable company would have robbed the OP of his coaxial cable (or whatever other wire might have been used). Did you miss the part about it being the OP’s coaxial cable/wiring and not that of the cable company? The cable company’s signal could be said to be invading the OP’s personal network of wires.** He had the right to expect that he had his own signal (from the outdoor antenna) coming through his wiring and not that of an outside entity.**

(If he has an outdoor antenna then it’s probably because rabbit ears are not sufficient for where he lives.)

As it turns out the OP took steps to remedy the problem and as a result saved the cable company from having to pay a technician to do what was rightfully the responsibility of the cable company in the first place.

Exactly.