1) I know it is a straw man argument, but there are technical limitations. You actually have to do some work to figure out how to run multiple slingboxes off of one cable hookup. 99% of people wouldn't be able to do it anyway.
Oh, I don't think anyone knows how to do it off one cable hookup. You have to have multiple live outlets. All slingbox does is control the TV. That's it. So it's the same as having cable connections in 2 different rooms. The cable TV subscriber pays for both outlets. But each slingbox unit then has its own password and service, but it can only be used by one person at a time.
2) If you did, you'd get away with it. Slingbox wouldn't care, because you spent hundreds on hardware.
3) Even if there were 1000 such people doing this in the US it wouldn't move the needle. You'd have to do something on a grand scale (like mp3 piracy) to make a difference. I imagine more people in NYC are splitting their cable signals today to share between apartments than people have even contemplated doing what you suggest.
I was just wondering why slingbox isn't illegal. Not for any revolutionary uprising. In truth, Slingbox's picture is not all that great--and now it doesn't even work well on the new Apple mobile OS (I have an iPad).
4) When slingbox came out (I was an early adopter) the big fight WITH the cable companies and content owners was to prohibit things like this on a grand scale. One of the concessions was to have it locked down so there can only be one user at a time, etc. Which covers 99+% of the use cases.
Yes, correct. Only one user at a time. But you can have boxes on multiple outlets.
5)
http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads...olicy-on-sharing-cable-service-with-neighbors
You'd run afoul of TWC in #5 and NOT slingbox in your setup. And possibly federal law.
Do you? Again, that's neighbor's setting up cable boxes between apartments. Very different than what slingbox does, which is to send over the internet. My example is obviously hypothetical. Until SNY, however, I had no access to local Husky games and used a slingbox off a Conn. TV to watch the Huskies play.
Likelihood of getting caught? Next to nil.
If you did? Probably a big deal. Kinda like all of the people that got swept up by the RIAA for piracy.