[linux-dvb] Re: software decoding of crypted channels ?

[Mathias Born <mborn@faphida.in-berlin.de>]

Sunday, September 30, 2001, 12:18:11 AM, Matthias Fechner wrote:

MF> Yes that is clear. But try to understand it: you need a right card to
MF> view the channel, e.g. you have an digital reciever with an Cam-Modul
MF> and a legal Card. Now you want to record some films, but for this you
MF> must change allways the card and the CAM and the DVB Driver has
MF> problems with some cams.

MF> With this software it is maybe possible to view some programms where
MF> the cam is not working with DVB-S under Linux.

MF> For this use you cannot get any problems, because it is not illegal.

Actually, this is is, sorry, a bit too naive. These broadcasting
companies exist for only one reason: they want to make tons of money.
The only thing that guarantess their income is the cryptographic
barrier that makes poeple paying for what they want to see.

If it is possible to do the decrypting in software and to copy the key
using the Internet people will start to watch these programs
illegally as it has happend with the analog pay-tv.

The company has two possibilities: ignore this and hope it stays
exceptional or suppress any software decoding by legal action.

-- 
Tbs,
 Mathias Born



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