Crime of the '90s; a victory at hand in worsening piracy war.

Multichannel News, February, 1992 by Stilson, Janet

Crime of the '90s A VICTORY AT HAND IN WORSENING PIRACY WAR Cable operators would win a "monumental" victory in the war against cable piracy if an imminent federal court ruling goes their way, according to Cablevision Systems Corp. executives. The signal-theft case, a joint crackdown by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Cablevision, involves 50,000 pieces of equipment used for pirating cable, seized in three New York-area facilities last October - including an old A&P supermarket where hundreds of bingo-playing senior citizens were startled by six 200-pound Cablevision security people and deputy U.S.

marshals on their way to a basement nerve center. Of even more significance, Cablevision now has in hand a two-inch-thick list of the...

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