Is it illegal cable if you get it by accident?

Scott had a tv which was touchy. He bought the floor demo model because it was $200 off. I never buy the floor model. It's kinda like buying a rental or finding your wife in a whorehouse. Not a wise choice.

He wanted a new tv. My parents bought me a new tv for Christmas the year before I moved in with Scott. Brand new. It's been sitting unused in the back room since I moved in. I suggested we bring it out and use it. Nope. It's too small he said. Not good enough you mean. It's good enough, just to small. After having a 13" tv for 11 years, I think a 20" is wonderful. But I must be alone in this thinking.

Everytime he brought up wanting a new tv, I reminded him that I had a perfectly fine tv in the other room.

One weekend his sister and her husband come down. The three of them go to Best Buy. I decide to stay home. He comes home with a tv. I wasn't too happy about that. It was one of those HDTVs.

They hook it up as I take my book and sit outside reading. Well, sulking really, but that's beside the point.

The next day after they leave he's channel surfing and happier than a pig in mud and he comes up to the higher channels. Not regular channels. These are numbered 74-25, 74-26, etc. These were on demand movie channels. The problem is we don't subscribe to these channels, nor do we have any control over them. Someone somewhere is scrolling through the different movies and genres as we watch, helpless to make suggestings and wagering bets on what the legitimate subscriber will end up watching.

We realized this as someone was watching a Wesley Snipes movie. It was the end and 5 times they rewound to watch the last 90 seconds. We couldn't figure out why. The dialog was clear, the back ground unremarkable, what where they looking for?

There's hundreds of these channels. I've kept a watch on many of these and deleted them out of the line-up if there was nothing on them when I checked at scheduled and random times. Yes, I know, I need a life, I keep checking ebay, but there's nothing available in my size.

So when there is nothing else on, we'll scan the illegal channels to see what someone else is watching. People watch cartoons at midnight on a school night and porn at 7.30 AM on Sunday.

Last night all the illegal channels were busy. Everyone was watching movies. This weekend The Longest Yard was popular. Right now I'm typing this as someone somewhere is treating themselves to a Sex in the City marathon.