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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Q-I have lost my favorite VCR feature since I had cable installed. I cannot tape a show to watch at another time while watching another show. Is there some way to correct this with an adapter? A-I ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two local cable television operators yesterday were reconsidering their plans to launch digital cable services in Taipei City after the city government set a price cap on the set-top descrambler box.