Edward G. Alberino Jr., 46, of 2 Grove Hill Road, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Aterton to three years probation, with six months of home detention, officials said. He also was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Just out of curiosity, has anyone written software that can descramble cable signals for a video capture card? This seems like something that would be kinda feasable with all that computing power ...