Cable asking FCC to allow everything encrypted

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http://www.multichannel.com/article/477203-NCTA_to_FCC_Let_All_Digital_MSOs_Encrypt_Basic_Tier.php

The National Cable & Telecommunications Association has urged the Federal Communications Commission to allow cable operators that have gone all digital to encrypt their basic tier.
That came in comments Monday on the FCC's proposal to do just that. "Given the substantial public interest benefits and the lack of harms associated with encryption, NCTA endorses the Commission's tentative conclusions and urges it to act expeditiously in amending its rules," according to the cable organization.
It added that allowing basic encryption would largely eliminate theft of service, promote innovation and investment, and reduce pollution and fuel consumption by reducing truck rolls to activate or deactivate service (NCTA said Monday that the benefits would outweigh the minimal extra watts consumed by new boxes).

Really, reduce pollution by eliminating truck rolls for disco/reco? What about jobs, bunky? Admit that wear & tear on plant also goes down.

My 5 year plan is coming along nicely. Scramble everything but a barker channel, SIK 60-75% of installs, profit.

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which is all good untill people figure out that they can pay their friend to rent a box and put it in their house.  We have enough of a problem of that with DTAs

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Either way I'm all for it.  I'm sure somebody will figure out a way to fix the renting a box to a friend issue some day.  At least cable companies will get some money via the rental fee and it'll slow the theft down.  Although since it will eventually come down to everybody using modems for everything it won't matter.  You can't just rent a modem because even subs have to pay twice for hsd service if they want 2 modems. 

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80% of the SIK's generate lots of truck rolls... maintenance rolling up and down every fu*#ing feeder leg cleaning up the noise from the loose fu*#ing connections the customers leave!!!

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You can't just rent a modem because even subs have to pay twice for hsd service if they want 2 modems.

True, but they sure like giving (renting) out their SSID #s in the MDU's . Then the cust has the nerve to call for a truck roll for slow speeds 
It's still too expensive to use all DHCT's instead of  DTA's, but that would be the only way to track the boxes that I can think of. I'm sure NOT renting out 5 DTA's to a 2 bedroom apt would help also.

Haven't went all digital down here, but I can sympathize chasing low level noise all day through the neighborhood for loose fittings in the premise. I wonder of ways around this, short of making the DTA/DHCT's BNC connector input only.... could give them the 6'-10' jumper as part of the SIK, but they would still have to screw the 6 fitting at the wall plate which is sure to be loose and making the plan void.

Still... I believe encryption is a step in the right direction. Guess we'll have to wait and see how much Lobby money was thrown at the FCC this year to see if it passes.