Labels:text | black and white OCR: Piracy on the High Poles Last fall, a man in upstate New York Joseph Taylor, president of Tele- But fun-and-games is not the prime Home Box Office, which provides pro- prompter Manhattan, calls "communi- motivation of cable pirates. Something was fed up with seeing ghosts on his gramming for more than half the Na- girl friend's TV screen. So he connected cations shoplifting a persistent prob- for nothing is. Subscriber fees now av- tion's pay-cable channels, reports that her set to a neighbor's cable and lem; one that we intend to stop." His erage $7 a month, up from an average 60 per cent of the 100 systems it serv- company is the first to use the state's ices are currently using traps (approx- wound up seeing bars for 45 days in of $5 three years ago. In Manhattan, the local jail. new th ...
