Don't tell Comcast

[Chakravartin]

PeterW wrote: Often the cable com will authorize some of the boxes to get more channels than you're paying for, hoping that you will call and sign up for them when they get switched off again in a couple of weeks.

Comcast often descrambles a few channels for a few days as a promo. They'll usually have a crawl on a couple of the channels prompting customers to call to upgrade service.