Recent content by jdcolombo

You did a very nice job of copying the common law definition of conspiracy in ENGLAND (under English common law) from Wikipedia even down to the English case cites. Perhaps you would like to scroll down to the next paragraph in that same section of Wikipedia, which talks about conspiracy in the...

Actually, you are absolutely wrong. The program rights holder gets paid by DirecTV regardless what service address you give them. As long as you are paying for service, DirecTV pays the rights holder on a per-subscription basis. Moving doesn't even deprive a local affiliate of a...

I agree completely. When one violates a known legal duty, even if it is not a crime, don't whine when you get caught. You made your choice, so live with it. John C.

Folks, this discussion of moving and fraud suffers from the same problem that all other threads about this suffer from: none of you know anything about the actual law. When someone says "moving" is "breaking the law" because it is "fraud," that person is at best being unclear, and at worst...

The FCC currently does not have rules in place for doing a DIGITAL signal test; accordingly, if you can receive the station's analog signal, you are out of luck with regard to a waiver. The FCC is apparently working on the digital white area rules, but it likely will be many months before those...

What is odd about this is that Sci-Fi actually already has a good deal of compelling content in HD and they are ALREADY "spending the money" on HD-ready content. Though this thread has focused on Battlestar Galactica, Stargate Atlantis is also done in HD (and is available in HD in Canada via...

Hi everyone. I just got a Starchoice 500HD system with the 76cm elliptical dish and quad LNB. Unfortunately, I didn't get any kind of switch with the system to connect my receiver to the two LNB's. I understand that Starchoice uses a 22khz tone system to switch between the two sats. This...

The Samsung DLP has a resolution of 1280 X 720 (720p), but it also has an internal scaler that will scale whatever input resolution you use to the set's 720p resolution. So, you can pretty much feed it anything. If you set the H10 at auto, then the Sammy will scale 1080i, 480p or 480i to...

OK. Well, it's obvious that I'm not going to convince you. And it's obvious you're not going to convince me. I could respond to each of your points (for example, bills are printed by DirecTV, not the "mover" and therefore don't fit the definition of mail fraud; many people don't even pay by...

Well, the only problem you have is that Sections 1341 and 1342 deal with MAIL FRAUD and require use of the Postal Service to commit fraud ("depositing" an item in the mail). The wire fraud statute, 1343, might be applicable if you lie over the telephone, but each of these sections require a...

All you have definitively proven is that you are ignorant of legal principles. The word "illegal" in its broad sense means the violation of a known legal duty. Such violations can be classified into two types: a civil violation, making you liable to the injured party for damages, and a...

I wasn't intending to put myself up there with Rosa Parks; I was only pointing out that there are many examples of people deciding that breaking the law was a moral act. I should have been more clear about that in my post. On the other hand, I have never made a secret of my "moving" - in...

I am always amused by the threads on "moving" and the various views of legality and morality revealed there. Is moving "legal"? No, in the sense that it is clearly defrauding your service provider to obtain something which by law you are not entitled to. It is illegal in a civil sense, the...