ILLEGAL `BLACK BOX' CRUSH SET STEAM ROLLER TO FLATTEN CABLE PIRATES' DEVICES AS WARNING.Byline: Daily News NEWHALL - Sheriff's Department officials will join AT&T Broadband company representatives today in Newhall to destroy about 3,000 illegal cable television service decoding devices that have been confiscated con·fis·cate tr.v. con·fis·cat·ed, con·fis·cat·ing, con·fis·cates 1. To seize (private property) for the public treasury. 2. To seize by or as if by authority. See Synonyms at appropriate. adj. . A giant, five-ton steamroller will be used outside the local cable company offices to crush these ``black boxes,'' which are used to illegally decode AT&T Broadband cable signals. The decoding devices, seized throughout Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. city and county by AT&T Broadband security personnel in conjunction with various law enforcement agencies A law enforcement agency (LEA) is a term used to describe any agency which enforces the law. This may be a local or state police, federal agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) or the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). , represent a small portion of cable piracy, company officials said. Nationally, cable theft costs the industry more than $6 billion a year. ``This event is only the beginning in our efforts to put an end to to destroy. - Fuller. See also: End these fraudulent practices,'' said Debi Picciolo, senior vice president for AT&T Broadband in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, . ``Cable theft harms everyone - cable operators lose millions of dollars in revenue, cable programmers lose the ability to control access to their original programming, cities lose valuable franchise fees and worse, honest customers lose from having to subsidize the cost of the theft and potentially suffer degraded picture quality from weak signals caused by tampering with the converters and our network.'' AT&T operates an anonymous hotline (1-800-35-THEFT) to report possible cable thefts. AT&T Broadband is the nation's largest broadband services company, providing television entertainment services to more than 13 million customers across the nation. The company also provides digital cable, high- speed cable Internet Internet access via the cable companies. There are two kinds of service. One uses a cable modem to connect to a computer, and the other uses an enhanced cable box that provides Internet access directly at the TV. services and local phone service. |
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