Some have asserted that signal theft is signal theft, and that such activities on the Internet would be no different than signal theft of cable or satellite service. We disagree. Cable is a closed path retransmission service with little customer interactivity. While a consumer can obtain an illegal "black box" for cable, that consumer cannot use his or her equipment to defeat the encryption system for cable signals, nor can that consumer further retransmit the cable signals around the world. The same is true for satellite. One can obtain an illegal smart card to make a digital satellite box operate, but that equipment cannot make a satellite signal suddenly available to anyone with a television set. These activities can occur, however, on the Internet, which makes comparisons between retransmissions via cable or satellite and the Internet inapposite.