Note I did not have cable at all growing up(legal or illegal wise) but like anyone in the 90's, we all knew someone that had the magic box as we called it. The gist of that box was that it would descramble encrypted channels then played them on the tv. So with this box you could watch all the cable channels and ppv for free.
I think they stopped working with the switch to digital tv in the mid 00's but it is nice to reminisce about a time when you could pay a man to install a special box with lots of channels. In today's world, companies have gotten smarter and it is not as easy as buying a box from a sketchy person.
But then again it is easier to find any movie or tv on the internet so there is that
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