re: Pulling recorded shows off of cable box

I've looked into it myself. From what I remember it consisted of removing the HDD from the DVR and putting it into an external inclosure. Then plugging that into a Linux computer and just copy/pasting them over to the flash drive. Way too much trouble to do over just going to thepiratebay.org and downloading whatever I wanted to watch (and the commercials are already removed for you!).