6 Responses to “How can I watch satellite TV for free in America without monthly subscription?”

1. ??The Queen Has Spoken?? on September 30th, 2008 1:39 pm

   Uhm that would be considered stealing and is illegal.

2. erndog_87 on October 2nd, 2008 8:30 am

   try beating up the cable guy

3. Luke on October 5th, 2008 4:45 am

   FYI
   Its not Pirating, or Stealing, the law states you can listen in view any signals over airwaves, including millitary and police.

   Your just not allowed to transmit, block or, jam.

   =)

4. Dr. R. U. Sirius on October 7th, 2008 2:06 am

   I got this from another website. It’s fairly informative. It is, however, against obtaining “free” satellite signals:

   Here is what the blog stated:

   ” wrote:
   > If signals are beaming into my property
   > can’t I legally view them?

   No. “Property” is not an absolute, it is a concept that has evolved.
   You can’t use your supposed right to your own property to violate the
   rights of others (e.g. copyright owners and their licensees). So your
   right to your own home and property has been modified over the years by
   legislation and regulations. What you are discussing is now illegal.

   Related, but really independent of this: the signals you are talking
   about are not normally accessible by the type of equipment readily
   available to receive communication signals. In addition to the normal
   processing of addio and/or video information for the purposes of
   transmission, the information is “encrypted” to prevent normal
   receiving equipment from recreating the viewable/listenable
   information. “Encryption” itself has achieved a legal protection
   through legislation that supersedes your property rights.

   Finally, the ability to de-encrypt such signals is frequently only
   possible through the use of copyrighted computer code, patented
   processes, the unauthorized use of protected trade secrets, etc. Your
   employment of such methods (possibly even by reverse engineering,
   though this is complicated) to view/hear the information would be
   illegal, whether done on your property or not; just like murder does
   not become legal simply because you do it in the privacy of your own
   home.

   So there are three totally independent areas of law you would be
   violating.

   Now contrary to all this goes centuries of common and written law that
   supports (though not unconditionally) your basic premise that anything
   dumped uninvited on your property becomes yours to use as you see fit.
   The problem is that it would take huge amounts of money to assert and
   attempt to achieve recognition of this view’s applicability to
   satellite TV, through litigation in test cases, and unless you’ve got a
   spare billion or three to commit to the process you’re out of luck. “

5. mike on October 7th, 2008 6:41 am

   its illegal to decrypt encoded signals DMCA.
   but google FTA, and dish network.

6. Marc X on October 9th, 2008 7:30 pm

   Satellite receivers are addressable and, so, can be controlled by the satellite TV providers. There are receivers in which the control has been removed, and the coding to access the signals has been installed. Problem is, providers change those codes every couple of months, so you need a continuous method to update your receiver.

   Unless you personally know someone who has the capability of burning new EPROMS for you cheap, you’re probably better off just paying the subscription.

   As for the legalities of watching such signals, if I can receive them AND I can decode them, I dare any agent of any legal system to try me in a court of law. They KNOW it will be a waste of their time.

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