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Originally Posted by Masque
Yes that will be an interesting one for them to work on cable, it is supposed to be fairly easy on SKY.
With our system though we see both the card and the box and they must match in order to work as we have to provision them with each other.
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Which is EXACTLY the same as sky's white card, which works perfectly with CS, software cams have been able to emulate boxkeys for years.
Make no mistake, people in n3 areas are using cardsharing to view n3 channels as we speak.
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Originally Posted by Masque
They are still selling the boxes and telling their customers that the new box cannot be blocked by NAGRA3 so those people are the ones to laugh at when the pretty warning screens start to appear and they have no comeback.
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Depending on the box, that could be true. Some of the well known 3rd party boxes just needs a dongle to enable cardsharing, and as of now there's not much you can do to stop it.
Seriously, no one needs to crack n3, as long as the codewords can be decrypted from the ECM and then read by someone then it's open season. Be that by emulating the stb's boxkey, or if improvements are made in future that stop the smartcards working in 3rd party cams, reading them direct from memory. The weak link here isn't the encryption, it's that the CAS codewords HAVE to exist at some point in plain text.
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Originally Posted by Kymmy
Even if the box isn't an original NTL/TW/VM one? If so are they now guilty of theft themselves??
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The copyright act gives broadcasters certain powers in seizure and forfeiture of infringing receivers, it is probably covered by that (but IANAL).