Copy rights : un-coding services to get them free

Fatawa Question

Assalamu Alaykum, I live in Canada. There are two companies that supply satellite TV services here. None of them carry Al-Jazeera. There is a satellite TV supplier in the USA that does. A co-worker told me that he bought the satellite dish from the USA and he breaks the codes on it to get the channels (this is so easy since a lot of web pages provide those codes). He said the satellite TV supplier from the USA doesn't care if people do that since they aren't allowed to provide their services in Canada anyway. In other words, there is no way to pay them (except that some people give a phony US address and have someone in the states subscribe for them). The only people who aren't happy about this are the two Canadian satellite suppliers (even though they don't give us the option of using them since they don't supply the channels we are interested in). My obvious question is : can I buy this dish and use it here in Canada to watch Al-Jazeera and other Arabic channels for free or is there anything wrong or immoral about that. Jazakom Allah Khairun,

Fatwa

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Publication Date

2003-01-11

Main Subjects

Media and Communication
Islamic Studies

Topics

• Islamic jurisprudence
• Satellite channels

No. of Pages

1

Data Type

Fatawa

Language

English

Record ID

BIM-725304

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