Early pay TV broadcasts in countries such as the used standard over-the-air transmitters many restrictions applied as were enacted to prevent broadcasters of scrambled signals from engaging in activities to harm the development of standard commercial broadcasting. History The concept of pay TV involves a broadcaster deliberately transmitting signals in a non-standard, scrambled or encrypted format in order to charge viewers a fee for the use of a special decoder needed to receive the scrambled signal. The and other groups which lobby in favour of (specifically and trademark) regulations have labelled such decryption as 'signal theft' even though there is no direct tangible loss on the part of the original broadcaster, arguing that losing out on a potential from a 's subscription fees counts as a loss of actual profit. The term 'pirate' in this case is used in the sense of and has little or nothing to do with, nor with, which involved the operation of a small broadcast without lawfully obtaining a license to transmit. Pirate decryption most often refers to the, or decoding, of or pay radio signals without permission from the original broadcaster.
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