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by greyface- 638 days ago
People have in fact done prison time for "uncapping" DOCSIS CPE (although I believe only in situations where they were making a commercial operation out of it). I love seeing sites like this, but if I were involved, I'd tread lightly around commercialization, advertising, taking donations, etc.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/oregon-man-sentenced-boston-3...

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/01/hacking-cable-mo...

2 comments

I assume that is why they have a page full of disclaimers before you get to any content.
jailtime for a mouthful of internet is somewhat of a stretch
Yes. Exactly.