Patrick Elliott wrote:
> Sadly, it never seemed to occur to them 
> that the best solution was to encrypt the damn signal in the first 
> place, until later.

You mean, until later, when the technology was economically feasible? 
Remember that HBO was around long before even digital cell phones, let alone 
cheap hardware encryption that could keep up with a signal as broad as a 
television broadcast. Remember that HBO started five years before the Apple 
][ and TRS-80 were cutting edge, and before even RSA public key encryption 
was conceived.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
  "How did he die?"   "He got shot in the hand."
     "That was fatal?"
          "He was holding a live grenade at the time."

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