Free Cable TV has always been a prized holy grail by people of all kinds in
this country, and throughout the years a cottage industry has risen up to give
the people What They Want. Beyond the immediate satisfaction of free TV, of
course, are the fascinating lengths that the industry goes to to scramble
signals so only authorized customers can have the precious signals.
How to Connect a PC to a VideoCrypt Decoder (April 11, 1994)
Cable Theft File: Pay TV Decoder
Cable Descrambling by Exodus of Golden Apple Enterprises
Cable TV and the like. Wow!!, What a Concept! by The Lunatic Phringe BBS
National Cable TV Satellite-Delivered Channels
Cable Descrambling, by Robin Hood
Cable TV and the Black Art of Radio by Thomas ICOM
Cable Descrambling by Robin Hood
Cable Companies Responsible for Cable Theft
How To Rip Off the Fucking Cable Company, by The Burnt Brain Society (1991)
The SSAVI Cable Scrambling System by the Mad Phone Man
Cable TV Scrambling Techniques, by the Mad Phone Man
A Listing of Cable Codes (December 4, 1992)
Cable Companies Getting Ready to "Zap" Video Pirates (May 5th, 1991)
Cable Descrambing, by Robin Hood
Cable Frequencies by The Researcher
Cable Piracy by Psycho Bear and Mad Poo Bandit
Cable TV Pirating, by Logic God
Pay TV Decoder Plans by Tom Hackerman
Article about Captain Midnight and the takeover of HBO
The Time Captain Midnight took over HBO
List of Firms that Manufacture Smart Card Connectors
Pirating Cable TV Part II by Logic God
Pirating Cable TV by Logic God Part 3 (January 6, 1986)
Cable Theft the Neighborly Way by Spanky
Cable Theft Made Easy by Acid Reign and Riff Raff
A Complete Guide to Chicago Cable TV by Ar-Kane and The Beastmaster (January, 1991)
From the Arcane Arts of AR-KANE: A Guide to Chicago Cable TV (January, 1991)
What to Do on a Clear Summer Night by Cablecast Operator and Pyro Maniac
Eagles Nest Present: Cable Scrambling Systems Version 1.0
The Pinouts of the VideoCrypt Controller
FAQ: Decoding pay TV, Version 1.2 (February 22, 1995)
Some Technical Details about Videocrypt by Markus Kuhn (August 2, 1994)
TVRO Frequently Asked Questions by Frank J. Perricone (March 9, 1994)
How to Get Free Cable by Doktor B0lliX N. Makari of Eleventh Hour Publishing
A Guide to the Chicago Cable System Part 1 by Dr. Ripco
The Hacker's Guide to Cable TV on San Francisco Viacom
What Is a Hacker? (Satellite, Piracy)
A List of the Hacker's Tools (For Satellite Hacking)
FAQ: Macrovision Frequently Asked Quesitons v1.0 by Antti Paarlahti
Making a PC to VideoCrypt and/or Smart Card interface via the RS232 Port
PC to VideoCrypt via RS232 Port by Alex Ivopol (January 10, 1995)
Some Technical Details about Videocrypt by Markus Kuhn (August 2, 1994)
DOCUMENTATION: MiniMAC: a PC Based Eurocrypt Smartcard Emulator
Mindless Mayhem #04: Cable TV Ripoff, by The Beastmaster (June 24, 1991)
A Quick and Dirty Nagra/Syster Descrabler by Crabbe
FAQ: Decoding Pay TV FAQ (January 30, 1995)
Some Backdoor Passwords to Cable Recievers That Have Lost Passwords
Defeating Scribblevision (May 11, 1990)
The Scrounger's Guide to Satellite TV by Gary Bourgois (1994)
An MS-DOS Videocrypt Smart Card Emulator, by Markus Kuhn (June 19, 1994)
DOCUMENTATION: Season95: The MS-DOS Videocrypt Smart Card Emulator by G. ANtwerp (May 29, 1995)
SATELLITE: Voyager Parameters and Running Settings
The VideoCrypt System: An Overview, by Darren Ingram (June 5, 1991)
Videocrypt/Eurocrypt Smart Cards: How do they work?
The Theory of Building a VideoCipher II Video Decoder
Cable TV Pirating, by Logic God
Cable TV Pirating, by Logic God
Some Technical Details about Videocrypt (August 2, 1994)
References relating to the VideoCrypt Pay-TV System (February 18, 1995)
An Overview of the Videocrypt System
SOFTDOCS: VIPER: The Video Protection Eraser
DOCUMENTATION: VOYAGER: The MS-DOS Videocrypt Smart Card EMulator