[vdr] Re: What CAM for SECA2 (Canal Satellite) ?

[Mattia Rossi <mattia@technologist.com>]

On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 15:36:50 +0100
Gregoire Favre <Gregoire.Favre@freesurf.ch> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 10:03:40AM +0100, Mattia Rossi wrote:
> 
> > One question about this solution:
> > The "softcam" version uses a modified av7110 firmware that enables
> > the piggyback of the control words obtained from the smartcard
> > reader into the av7110. I had a discussion about this with other ppl
> > in a couple of forums about the problems that could arise using such
> > a modified firmware.
> > 
> > What I would like to know is whether there are legal issues using
> > such a firmware even having a legal subscription to a satellite
> > provider(patents and/or copyright violations).
> 
> It has been discussed on this ml: emulating a CAM is illegal, so the
> legal problem is not the firmware, but the CAM emulation ;-)
> 

Ok, found the threads in the mail archive, it will take a while to read
them all ...

Thanks

mattia


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