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The way I read it is that the business side is there as the public do have access to a lot of business premises (for example shops) and if a person owns the shop then they are covered the same as a private house. BUT a market stall holder can not be determined as a place of business just a point of sale.. Otherwise any illegal street seller of fake DVD's could specifiy that his corner of the street is his regular place of business and walk off with his conterfit goods.. TheDon do you have experience with this? or in a legal profession? Just that I understand your interpretation as well as my own but was wondering if your viewpoint had any knowledge as to why one interpretation is correct? |
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This is the entire point of the right of seizure though, it's for use when you couldn't otherwise apply for a court order to seize in advance and instead are acting on opportunity. If you know someone is going to regularly have possession of them in a course of business you go through the courts, if you just otherwise come across someone with one you can seize it on the spot. Quote:
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I'd care more about Virgin cracking down on chipped boxes if it meant cheaper monthly subscriptions to me (although being on Sky it makes no difference either way).
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---------- Post added at 12:35 ---------- Previous post was at 12:16 ---------- I'm not sure what the definitions are in law but even a car boot sale may be covered as a place of business. The individual seller has paid the organiser for a patch and the organiser has rented the venue, more often than not, on a regular basis agreement. With a market stall, the organiser is usually the local council or its representative. Although their may be different permits involved, a market and a car boot sale seem very similar to me. Anyway, I don't want to get into this largely uninformed and speculative 'legal' discussion and I think we should all move on. Wait a few of months until Nagra 1 has been removed and then restart the discussion based on the results. Did my dodgy neighbour continue to receive free cable (FreeLoad ;))? Did he/she avail of the amnesty and go 'legit'? Did they switch to satellite (BSkyB or FreeSat) or 'downgrade' to DTT on FreeView? How much did my subscription go down or content go up as a result of this new injection of revenue to VM from the reformed FreeLoad-ers? All this and more but only when we actually know something! Seizure? I think I'm having one! |
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Saw someone asking for a Virgin Media Box on freecycle. Advised them and the group administrators about the illegality of such a transaction.
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Did hear the other day that there is a trade in untouched virgin boxes. It seems some of the dodgy box users have modded there subbed box's, How stupid can they get. So they are after unmodded boxes to hand back when the modded subbed box goes off :LOL: |
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I find it amazing that people assume that someone who rips off large DTV companies is will not also rip off customers.
After all, they aren't going to go complaining to anyone that they've been ripped off as they are technically doing something illegal. It reminds me of a scam they covered in "The Register" years ago. A porn company registered a particularly offensive sounding name that they used for credit card billing purposes. They then charged extortionate amounts to people cards, thinking that most people would not complain due to the risk they might have to explain why they are ordering from a company with an offensive name. |
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They are a bunch of crooks so why anyone would trust them with money i don't know. I have heard of 2 cs servers that have failed now. :clap: |
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What would be funny is if someone was sold a cardboard 'box' lol
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well they would have paid for a set-top box then ;) |
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http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.u...aid.6298437.jp Not sure if this is Cable or Sat but :clap: to the police for the bust. Keep it up. |
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That's going to be an ever increasing trend once everywhere is n3. You'll soon find all the public servers going down because they're so easy to track. Foreign based ones will probably stay around, but the digital economy bill makes it trivial to force ISPs to block access to them (and VM could easily just null route them anyway, and most people getting free tv are probably getting free internet too). Cardsharing isn't going to be public for all too long, it won't take much until it's pushed back underground (unless someone develops a truely p2p cardsharing sharing system...) |
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Reading some of the VM CS related posts on the Dark Side has been interesting in that the common consensus seems to be that people now more wary about getting ripped off. Having to buy new kit and then paying a years money up front to a dodgy CS set up that can not be held accountable in any way if they fail to deliver seems to be a step to far for people who previously felt more in control of their thievery as they only had to hand over a few quid to the 'guy in the pub'. |
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The forums dedicated to stealing cable are reporting that one of the servers that has been setup to allow a form of sharing has been raided. Couple of quotes below
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This shows that the servers can and will be found and shut down. This has happened very quickly which shows that the system is not safe for the thieving gits :clap: Now lets see more of these raids happening |
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It will be interesting to see what action is taken regarding the IP addresses & MAC addresses that are harvested as a result of the seizure of this server.
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And if they send the servers aboard it does not take the brains of a Arch Bishop to track them and get them shut down by the isp who's network they are working on. |
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In practice though it requires the co-operation of the country that it's hosted in, and just ask the MPAA and RIAA how co-operative other countries are at shutting down copyright infringing services. There are many countries that just sit there and stick two fingers up at the requests and let them carry on regardless. It'll take an extensive court battle to get some countries ISPs to take a site offline (just look at the pirate bay) and by then there will simply be another in it's place. This is why the DE bill has the potential to enforce site blocking, so we can just get UK isps to block access to the sites without having to go through the hoops of getting them shut down. |
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You could also see attacks against the servers from anonymous sources as well ;) |
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I find myself wondering if something similar to the IWF proxy could be set up to deal with known card sharing servers.
That it would immediately identify those using them is, of course, purely a bonus :) If anyone wants technical details on this happy to provide, else I'm sure those in the know already know how the Cleanfeed box works :) EDIT: This does of course assume it's not already in place. Could be automatic and effortless actually, all scripted and based on parsing packet captures. 2nd EDIT: No it can't, legal reasons. |
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It's not and never has been clear-cut that the Piratebay does anything illegal, except allowing newbies to get themselves sued but that's a question of morality and not legality. Even in the UK you just have to look at what happened to Oink (administrator was found not guilty, others a slap on the wrists). Many countries take direct pay-tv theft much more seriously, mainly due to EU legislation but also self-interest since many of the major PAY TV operators have government involvement. Cardsharing servers really need to be as local as possible, the same country preferably to work with any kind of reliability. This is certainly true of newer encryptions, older versions had a lot more leeway in terms of latency. I'm going to assume N3 was designed with defeating card sharing in mind, especially long range and if the servers are on British soil, prosecution should be straightforward. |
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In Warrington the new cards have been rolled out yet the chap in the local layby bacon sandwich van :D still claims to be getting Sky Sports via a hookey VM box :mad:
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We have to be sure everyone has swapped their catds before we switch off the old encryption. |
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How long will Channel 997 broadcast after switch over? |
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East Scotland has Glasgow is very soon
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This thread gives me a warm feeling inside every time it pops up in my subscriptions list. :D
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I suspect not, now. VM have shut down most analogue areas (AFAIK).
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Pedant mode on
There has not been a chip installed in a cable box to allow the user to watch encrypted channels for years I believe. I think in fairness most if not all chipped boxes were analogue Pedant mode off It is however common practice to call modified boxes "chipped" although they are not :) |
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Yep and as this thread is about "chipped boxes" and the changes Nagra 3 (a digital encryption method) then it's correct to assume that it's not to do with the old analogue boxes..
The thing is that if you say Modified box to most of the public you;ll get a blank look where as a chipped box will get some response ;) |
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yes I know thats why I used pedants in good humour :)
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Indeed ... as it is also common practice to call the process of solving computing problems 'debugging' ... even though it has been many years since computers had the sort of enormous valves that used to get clogged up with insects to the point where they would overheat and go pop, requiring both a new valve and a sweep with a brush to remove the bugs from the works. </aside> :D ;) |
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Whilst the origin of the term 'debugging' is contested, it almost certainly pre-dates thermionic valves and has far wider historical usage that just in the computer hardware or software industries. </more aside> |
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I would have thought that it had a naval context with debugging food before consumption??
Anyway getting back on topic... Shall we have a contest to see how many boxes we can see sat on top of wheelie bins when finally the old encryptionis turned off :) |
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I dont know if the switch off has taken place in Nottingham as yet but there does seem to be quite a few boxes turning up on Gumtree.
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My guess would be that the switch-off hasn't happened yet, but word has got round that it's coming, and people are trying to offload their dodgy boxes while they can still show them as working.
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I am getting message now but no card yet, Knowsley Headend, hopefully it aint too far off.
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We would not find as it would be a nice easy quick call but you could have been sitting there with a phone to your ear for no real reason.;) |
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I know someone who has a Samsung 'chipped' box that I warned him about a while ago. We have had our cards here in Manchester a month now? and as of last week his dodgy box was still working.... how come?
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Not all of Manchester has had the cards yet, including my area, unless you have a fault and a tech comes round
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Somebody will. I can remember a quite a few years back when there was only Sky, a guy were my mum and dad worked built his own sky box and dish, and he got a better picture that people who had a genuine sky box. He built the dish out of a metal dusbin lid and fixed that to his wall, at that time our council was very anal about satellite dishes on houses, and didn't like them going up, so told him to remove his "dish", but he responded it's a dustbin lid, not a dish and they never came back to get him to remove it. |
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These days the more common 58cm mini-dish is probably more discreet than a roof-top mast of DTT beams, an FM folded dipole loop and a dipole for DAB. |
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I have not read all 65pages of this thread so maybe this has already been answered, for which I apologise if this is the case.
These "dodgey boxes" that are talked about, they have been around for a long time so I hear, and every time Virgin do whatever it is they do and knock them off, before long they are back up and running. My question is, why is everyone so excited about this now when they maybe up and running again soon? Or is something really being done this time and they won't come back? I am not a "dodgey box" owner, in fact it cheeses me off to think people have got TV for free when I and many others, have to pay! I am not technically in the know about this stuff so please forgive my lack of knowledge in this area. |
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Great news then at last, they will have to pay like the rest of us :) . Thanks for the explanation, makes me a happy camper :)
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Speaking as someone who doesn't watch tv. I have a Samsung box that was provided as part of my contract it supplies the Virgin Freeview channels. Everytime I phone Virgin of late, it gives me this whole 'We recently sent you a tv card to our great new tv channels ....' it says something else, but I'm usually staring at the ceiling by the time its quoted the first sentence and waiting for the 'Hello Virgin Media how may I help you?' voice.
Anyway, my question is, will the fact that I choose NOT to insert the cards into my tv box have any effect on my account overall? I may eventually goto the trouble of messing around with the whole TV thing in the future and may even insert the tv cards at a later date but right now TV doesn't interest me so I'm not planning on inserting the cards anytime soon, but don't want it to effect my broadband connection in anyway with me choosing to not use the Samsung Freeview Box. It maybe worth pointing out that the TV box is NOT installed near the tv at this point, instead its on top of a cupboard in the bedroom still in its box. Also, should I choose to install the TV cards at a later date say in 6 or 12 months after the roll out of your secret encoding thing has been deployed. Will the cards still work, or will I have to apple for new cards for instance? Finally, for those that will conclude that I'm doing something dodgy Virgin Media are free to come around and check my installation anytime they so wish to ensure that it's not using any equipment that I shouldn't. I did try asking the Customer Services\Broadband Tech Support people the above questions, but unfortunately none of them could answer my questions and by the time they had transferred me to TV Tech Support, I had literally forgotten the question I was going to ask, yes it took that long :( I should have written it down obviously :) :dunce: Thanks for your time. |
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also worth noting... the stb while unplugged will be getting no software updates, this could cause problems for the box in the future, but if it doesn't work when plugging back in, then just call faults.
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although boxes are going off up and down the country, Belfast has yet to be touched.
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There are no FREE to AIR channels on Virgin Media boxes, the M subscription comes free with a phone line but they are still encrypted
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As Masque says, they will be greeted with a nice screen with a nice warning telling them to get subscription :P
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i hope this means that our broadband speeds increase and the price will drop..
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He may well of done but I only read one or 2 posts these threads go on for weeks lol
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Ta very muchly :)
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I condemn all use of "chipped" boxes, but by golly there's some sanctimonious holier-than-thou types in this thread.
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yea and this isnt even a LEGIT virgin forum...there is only 1... http://community.virginmedia.com/ ..whats this site for as a matter of fact??your number one cable forum Resource is http://community.virginmedia.com/..who runs this site??is it sanctioned by vm?? nthell.com??what ever happened to that place?? |
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If it wasn't legit, it would have been taken down by the government.
Which isn't true as it has been running for many years AFAIK, NTHell was the original name of Cable Forum before it was changed. Edit: If you take a butchers over at http://www.nthellworld.co.uk/home.php you will see that is the same as Cable Forum apart from the colour scheme until you click on the topic. |
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It's owned by (I believe) Paul and Frank, and is run by Paul, Frank, Mick and the rest of the moderating/admin team. It's also arguable that without this site (and particularly it's predecessor Nthellworld.com), community.virginmedia.com would not exist. |
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if the music/film industry were able to cut 99% of illegal stuff then the prices should drop lol...i would even say that skys recent wholesale price have been conspired between the 2 r's lol..richard and rupert ;) |
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