no one gets hurt. The $30 i save i end up spending at stores and restaurants, which puts the money back in the hands of consumers instead of into the cable corporation.
you may end of paying directly for cable but the extra money i send outside of the corporation will only stimulate the economy. You are blinded by the corporation
2006-12-01 17:52:58 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
ps if you think they send people to jail for stealing cable/internet you are dumb. There are to many rapist and murderers around to fill prisons with cable theifs. derrr
2006-12-01 17:58:08 · update #1
ps if you think they send people to jail for stealing cable/internet you are dumb. There are to many rapist and murderers around to fill prisons with cable thiefs. derrr
2006-12-01 17:58:25 · update #2
How do you steal cable? I am interested....
2006-12-01 17:55:05 · answer #1 · answered by Tanner 2 · 0⤊ 4⤋
How is it victimless. It's a business like any other and that business keeps people employed by charging for its services. Just like the grocery store sells its products, makes a profit and pays its employees...and the better the store does, the better it is for everyone (more sales, more pay for employees, more jobs)... You are seeing things very narrowly if you think it is victimless, but beyond that it is stealing, plain and simple. So basically what you are saying is that you have no problem with stealing something that is not free for you to take and you have no problem adversely impacting a company (and subsequently its employees and the other people who benefit from that company being in business). So, in a nutshell, you're not really worried about whether or not there are victims -- you're just trying to justify what you know is criminal.
2006-12-02 02:00:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cable is one thing. I doubt that anyone cares about that. But stealing cable internet is another. Cable companies allot more bandwith to areas that are more densely populated with their customers, so if you start using the net, it slows everyone else down, and I personally would care a great deal about that.
2006-12-02 01:55:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not a victimless crime. You're stealing from a company. A victimless crime is something like gambling, prostitution, etc. There are no real victims, all involved are (usually) willing participants (I'm not talking about the crime that grows up around them).
2006-12-02 01:55:52 · answer #4 · answered by The Doctor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not victimless, you're stealing from the company. Not to mention, if you get caught (and you probably will eventually) you're going to be paying a far heftier price in fines than if you'd bothered to pay the $30 a month in the first place.
Btw, I hope it's not Comcast you're doing that to. I worked for them for a while and if they find out you're doing that, trust me it won't be pretty. They don't take that lightly.
2006-12-02 01:58:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't care what you do, but my former housemate when I was in college had to do community service because he got caught stealing cable. I forgot how many hours exactly, but it was really ironic because in my hometown, a woman was sentenced to fewer hours of community service for "illegally discharging a firearm within the city limits" and killing a man for walking in her yard. He said he got caught because they drive around in a van and look for leaks, and where there is an illegal connection, it leaks. They detected his leak, then showed up at his door with a policeman.
2006-12-02 02:23:24 · answer #6 · answered by Smiley 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's a crime against the cable company.
2006-12-02 01:53:59 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because you steal cable, it means they have to raise the price for the rest of us to compensate.
Think shoplifting - store owners have to charge higher prices to compensate for shoplifting, which is nothing but a financial loss for them.
2006-12-02 01:58:00 · answer #8 · answered by Lunarsight 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, we're being charged by the corporation for the internet time and cable time you admit to stealing.
2006-12-02 01:56:44 · answer #9 · answered by blkrose65 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OH No It's people like me paying your way you are cheap, hope you can look at yourself in the mirror and see the thief you are.
2006-12-02 01:57:09 · answer #10 · answered by lonetraveler 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it isnt a victimless crime, it is a crime that affects everybody that does pay for cable... free cable means higher rates!!! thats not good for us who do things right!
2006-12-02 02:18:35 · answer #11 · answered by The-chicken 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋