《纽约时报》2002年6月3日刊登一篇文章,说一家市场研究公司经过调研估计,美国有线电视产业目前有6450万付费订户,另有1300万不付费的窃收户,估计美国有线电视产业因节目被窃收而每年损失62亿美元的营业收入。窃收者所用的手段包括从黑市购买有线电视变换器和解密器,以及从用于宽带接入因特网的调制解调器上私自接线。这篇文章中主要叙述后一种手段。 The New York Times published an article on June 3, 2002, stating that after a market research firm estimated that the U.S. cable industry currently has 64.5 million paying subscribers and another 13 million unpaid stolen households, it is estimated that the U.S. cable television The industry lost revenues of 6.2 billion U.S. dollars annually due to programs being stolen. The methods used by theft recipients include the purchase of cable transformers and decryptors from the black market and the unauthorized wiring from modems for broadband Internet access. This article mainly describes the latter method.