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Originally Posted by BenMcr
The only upside I can think of is now that alot of the content on Virgin is on VOD, is that not easier to block, even from an illegal card?
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I was thinking before, when they were blocking cloned modems about how they could theoretically block hacked STBs. I don't know of anyone that's hacked VM return path, so the possibly surefire way of doing it would to treat every channel as on-demand. I.e. that instead of broadcasting every channel and letting the STB decypher it, to allow the return path to request the channel, with a ID/key pair that is stored on the card and the customer's account, and can be changed if compromised (same id/key pair used in two parts of the country)
I don't even know if VM's headends & network can hack that many extra on demand requests and video streams floating around, but it would make changing channel hideously slow. At least 5 extra seconds, i'd guess.