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

[Karen Lewellen]

Hi,
While this answers my specific question, your comment  about sharing 
services  creates a different one.
If you have a large house  with more than one television, it is  often the 
case that this second television has its own cable box, say to allow other 
members  of your household to  watch what they wish.
How is indeed  sharing the Internet with the basement of your house 
different?
Kare



On Tue, 30 May 2023, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> 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.
>
> -- 
> Len Sorensen
>