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I don't per se have an issue with this, but one side effect is going to be that one-off costs of things like decoder boxes are gonna probably be a single lump sum up-front fee rather than amortized over the contract.
It's also not clear to me why, if such a restriction is a good idea, it would be specific to cable service. Cell phone providers, for example, do similar things.
I don't know how that works in the US, but in places where I lived, those boxes were leased. So that's not gonna be up-front fee.