Jeff Otterson/N1KDO <otterson@MINDSPRING.COM> writes:
>   Help them if you want, but you could become an accomplice to a *felony* if
> you assist them in stealing television programming...

That seems unlikely to me (although admittedly I am not a lawyer).  There are
legitimate uses for defeating the code protection, such as reverse engineering.
For instance, I have extracted code from protected parts in order to fix bugs
and add features to products I have purchased.

If I were to tell people how to defeat the code protection, I wouldn't be
responsible if they then used it for illegal purposes, any more than the guy
at the hardware store who sells them the screwdriver that they use to open
the box, or the vendor of the copy machine that they use to infringe
copyrights of magazine articles.

Your signature says:
> Maker and user of tools

As such, I would expect you to have a bit better grasp of the concept that
information is also a tool, and can be used for either legal or illegal
purposes.

Cheers,
Eric