Channel 16 is leaking! O_O

[Monica]

Hehe, We're not supposed to get Channel 16, it's Encore, a movie channel you are supposed to buy seperately. But for some reason, it is very watchable, I dunno if it's just at our house or what, but it's kinda cool. I mean, it's not perfect, there is still scrambling stuff in the way, but you can hear the sound really well, I think there might be a little buzz, but I don't really notice it. And the picture is way better than it should be, in color, and you can watch it if you really wanna see the movie or if you just don't mind the fuzz (I don't because a few of our local channels are worse than they should be, and I actually don't really like the company) FOX was messed up so bad last year, I wasn't able to enjoy American Idol at all.

Anyway, I was just curious, does anyone consider it stealing, if you watch that channel without paying? My mom said it's not, cause we didn't cause it illegally, but I wonder if anyone thinks so? And does anyone else have a leaky channel? :)

[moocow]

We get free movie channels on occasion... But that's something the cable company gives us.

[Monica]

Wow you're lucky moocow. I can't see CMA just "giving" us any free channels. We had to pay extra for Disney and my mom got it when I was like 3, and I had it until they COMPLETELY TOOK IT OFF when I was 14. It's because our town is small (and...poor...) and they claimed that "not enough people were buying it", same thing happened to Cable Internet (which we bought and they got rid of after a year) and Digital Cable (which we were considering, and when we went up to ask about it, they had gotten rid of it)

[Machiavelli]

Sometimes my satellite provider puts on extra channels for a while as a trial version to get you to later buy that channel. They hardly do that now, and we have most of the channels anyway.

And I don't consider stealing, as you didn't go out and try to get free cable.

[copsgotguns]

i remember when i was able to see the 'adult' channel out of nowhere one day...i accidentally turned it off and it never appeared again.

[Archibaldo]

i remember when i was able to see the 'adult' channel out of nowhere one day...i accidentally turned it off and it never appeared again.
OMG, Friends flashback. The episode where Joey and Chandler stumble upon free porn. And they talk to the landlord about it, he says he experienced the same thing, his only mistake was turning off the TV.