How can I watch satellite TV for free in America without monthly subscription?

FYI Its not Pirating, or Stealing, the law states you can listen in view any signals over airwaves, including millitary and police. Your just not allowed to transmit, block or, jam. =)

Uhm that would be considered stealing and is illegal.

its illegal to decrypt encoded signals DMCA. but google FTA, and dish network.

I got this from another website. It's fairly informative. It is, however, against obtaining "free" satellite signals: http://groups.google.com/group/alt.home-theater.misc/browse_thread/thread/9372652469d0803d/616ea411955a4880?hl=en&lnk=st&q=is+it+legal+to+watch+satellite+tv+for+free%3F&rnum=4#616ea411955a4880 Here is what the blog stated: "<[email protected]> wrote: > If signals are beaming into my property > can't I legally view them? No. "Property" is not an absolute, it is a concept that has evolved. You can't use your supposed right to your own property to violate the rights of others (e.g. copyright owners and their licensees). So your right to your own home and property has been modified over the years by legislation and regulations. What you are discussing is now illegal. Related, but really independent of this: the signals you are talking about are not normally accessible by the type of equipment readily available to receive communication signals. In addition to the normal processing of addio and/or video information for the purposes of transmission, the information is "encrypted" to prevent normal receiving equipment from recreating the viewable/listenable information. "Encryption" itself has achieved a legal protection through legislation that supersedes your property rights. Finally, the ability to de-encrypt such signals is frequently only possible through the use of copyrighted computer code, patented processes, the unauthorized use of protected trade secrets, etc. Your employment of such methods (possibly even by reverse engineering, though this is complicated) to view/hear the information would be illegal, whether done on your property or not; just like murder does not become legal simply because you do it in the privacy of your own home. So there are three totally independent areas of law you would be violating. Now contrary to all this goes centuries of common and written law that supports (though not unconditionally) your basic premise that anything dumped uninvited on your property becomes yours to use as you see fit. The problem is that it would take huge amounts of money to assert and attempt to achieve recognition of this view's applicability to satellite TV, through litigation in test cases, and unless you've got a spare billion or three to commit to the process you're out of luck. "

try beating up the cable guy