[GTALUG] an odd question about well on going service factors.

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 05:27:06PM -0400, Karen Lewellen via talk wrote:
> bell is not being nasty about my Landlord's choices.
> bell is being nasty about my body not matching their definition of
> disability.
> Your point about sharing service is an interesting one, If it is illegal,
> how can so many rental structures provide it as apart of their tenancy?
> In fact it is a part of my rental agreement, the one provided by the
> residential tenancies act.

Just because it is commonly done doesn't mean it isn't against the
provider agreement.  After all netflix also says in their terms of
service that you can't share your passowrd with other people, and yet
lots of people did and now that they are finally cracking down on it,
people are acting like they changed the rules.  The rules were always
there, they just weren't being particularly well enforced.  Just like
Bell isn't doing that much to enforce those rules.  They are probably
more concerned that you can't have a small building with 10 units and
use a single account to provide service to those than they are about a
house renting out a small basement apartement to one person and sharing
with them.

> Again my question is very specific.  Is there such a thing as  a universal
> Set top box?

No definitely not.  Only a box provided by Bell will work with their
service.

In the US in theory there could be a universal cable box due to FCC
rules about local channels being carried unencrypted on digital cable,
although I am not sure it is enforced and that all cable companies obey
those rules.  In Canada we have no such rules, and cable companies can
do whatever they want.

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Len Sorensen