Reply #8: I was on the verge of getting rid of DISH and going all internet [View All]

for my tv watching. That combined with dvd's burned courtesy of Netflix and trips to sportsbars would have kept me from missing DISH much. I would have saved about 70 bucks a month. Now the ability to do that for long is in doubt. It might just be a matter of time before my ISP starts charging for bandwidth.

It's like the first people that bought sattelite dishes. They had it made! They got everything and once they paid for the dish, no more cable bills! Yeah right. It was a constant war between scramblers and chip bootleggers.

In my town I knew a couple of the guys that got busted by the Feds. It went down like a drug bust and that was the end of it. No more chip upgrades. Most people that bought those dish setups never got their moneys worth. Maybe some that got in right at first but you could pay a lot of premium cable bills for what one of those dish setups cost.

There is just no way you get free tv forever and we probably shouldn't. I mentioned the dvd's I burn. I don't sell copies so I figure I'm only fudging a little. It's actually my girlfriend that will watch those repeatedly. I see a movie and it might be years later I'd like to watch it again. If that's piracy I say, "Yo Ho Ho!" I still will have paid retail prices for almost all of my music and video.