In litigation over Robert R. Radil's illicit cable descrambler business, cable supplier AT&T has managed to win some of the highest per-household awards ever imposed for residential use -- more than ...

A common “junk e-mail” sent out these days seems to be from people selling the know-how to build cable descrambler boxes. For a fee of, say, $13.95, the list of items needed to build a cable box can ...

LODI -- A man suspected of selling illegal television cable descramblers was so busy counting the $2,200 handed him by an undercover detective Thursday he failed to notice the arresting officers next ...

imported legitimate analog cable converters, possibly from Taiwan. They then soldered a 50-cent computer chip into the boxes, which turned them into cable descramblers, Genna said. restitution charges ...

When the FBI raided the New Haven home of Robert R. Radil in 1994, it came up with a goldmine of information on his computer hard drive-the customer list for his illicit cable descrambler business.