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Been a wile since i posted here. I am really excited about this. I get so p***** off with all those at work offering me dodgy boxes and telling me how great they are. I told them it will change, they don't believe me. I not even going to mention this to them. I going let it just happen to them and their screen go blank. No more than they deserve they said "You need help paying subscriptions when you can get it free" They be needing help now. I really cant wait for this hurry up Virgin media switch them off.

I work on the local council by way hundreds of employees. Question, Will this switch off all the hacking these thieves have done? At work many have cloned modems for internet giving 20mb for free. I get offered all these things, when it changes in my area it will knock off thousands of these dodgy boxes and modems.

I cant wait to see their faces when they come to work missing football and all the pay per view they say they get for free. :):):):D:D:D:D

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Well the very minimum its going to do is that the scummy thieving gits will lose there tv for good unless they pay like the rest of us. The other upshot of this is that the traders who sell boxes and sell fixes every couple of months will not be earning money from it anymore. Oh how my heart bleeds for them :LOL:

Just seen this posted on a well known forum

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Ben, I totally understand why you can’t go into detail. However I shall be abroad from 11 Nov to 11 Dec, with a load of programmes set to record. I’m concerned that the new card may arrive whilst I’m away and the old card may expire before I return.

There is no indication in the FAQs as to how long one has to change card once the new one arrives.

Is there any form of words that you could use to indicate if I may have problem? If not a PM would be much appreciated. By the way I’m in Cambridge.

Regards

--John

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You will be fine

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Thanks for that Ben.

John

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As Zing has said, and maybe some others, all they have to do now is deal with the cloned modems, that should seal it up rather nicely.

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Just curious but I was reading on another forum (beginning with a "T") about card sharing and was wondering if this would actually be a possibility for those still wanting free cable?

Also what can vm do to stop clone modems?

Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
 

They could do a system where if a modem connects with the same MAC as one on the system it is blocked

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It's a possibility, but a far smaller one than the current system.

Card sharing is only really possibly within small groups, you can't have widespread card sharing because once you open the group up to anyone the keys from the card become public and the card is easily blocked.

For a card sharing ring to work you have to trust every single person you're sharing the card with, you'll never have an instance where you can just sign up to a website and get into a card sharing ring.

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Thanks for the extra information.

It's quite interesting to read about the various things that vm can stop people abusing the system. Are the new smartcards anything to do with the iptv people have been talking about on here?

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Not sure

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I have a v box and v+ I have a funny feeling they will only send one.

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What justification do you have for that statement? The website is clear that you will receive a separate card for each box:

http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html/help/smartcard/

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Unless of course one of the boxes is dodgy ;)

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No way!


I said I had a feeling....