Need legal advice on Satellite TV?
ok. there is an organization operating from a country in Europe which advertises to the customers in US for providing television programming to the people in US. After the customer signs up for the programming, company sends the customer a cable box. Customer plugs the box into their internet router and boom they can watch their native tv programming. Latest problems have been that, after a month or so later some of the tv networks are being taken off the programming and they are being replaced by some other channel. Possibility of a channel could be taken off programming was never mentioned when the customer signed up for the service. And that possibility is still not being mentioned on their website. When contacted, companys’ response was that, "these things are bound to happen" ??? my question is that, why wasn’t that mentioned before i signed up? and i get no answer. I live in New York state, should i contact the Attorney General and the FCC? This to me sounds nothing more than a bait and switch, they advertise that they are going to offer channel "A" but after a month or two later they remove that channel and replace it with some other channel that customer doesn’t care for.
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The satellite company can’t force the networks to sign contracts with them, so they aren’t doing anything wrong. If a network doesn’t want to renew their contract, the carrier can no longer provide the programing. It is bound to happen, and, in fact, happens all the time on every type of subscription service.
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They might be stealing the signal from a satellite provider and sending it over the internet without permission. I have been approached by other companies to do that. It is very easy: active satellite box, sling box, fast internet connection.
If what they are doing IS legal as it may be, then call the company up, complain and ask for a discount. If they wont, cancel, do a chargeback, whatever.
If you want to sue them, you are going to have a hard time, they are over there, and you will never be able to make it happen. Keep American dollars in America.