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.

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. “

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

=)