QUESTION: I’ve received several unsolicited e-mails regarding a “legal cable TV descrambler.” It would cost me less than $30 and would save me more than $400 a year in cable rates. Is this device ...

LODI -- A man suspected of selling illegal television cable descramblers was so busy counting the $2,200 handed him by an undercover detective Thursday he failed to notice the arresting officers next ...

Q: I’ve always just assumed that cable descramblers are as illegal as tapping into your neighbor’s service. So what’s with all these pop-ups and spams hawking “completely legal” descramblers? Man, I ...

Usually when a cable television provider scrambles a signal it is rather difficult to descramble, if not impossible. However, I am supposed to receive channels 2-25 & 60-70 flawlessly (this is my ...

When the FBI raided the New Haven home of Robert R. Radil in 1994, it came up with a goldmine of information on his computer hard drive-the customer list for his illicit cable descrambler business.

imported legitimate analog cable converters, possibly from Taiwan. They then soldered a 50-cent computer chip into the boxes, which turned them into cable descramblers, Genna said. restitution charges ...

A common “junk e-mail” sent out these days seems to be from people selling the know-how to build cable descrambler boxes. For a fee of, say, $13.95, the list of items needed to build a cable box can ...

Where defendants used descrambler devices to obtain cable television signals award of statutory damages against each of five defendants four of whom were married to each other affirmed in part and ...