mercurial
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i'm trying to figure out my logic here but i'm confusing myself. i don't have any links to prove you wrong, but if i do, i'll post it here.
i wouldn't risk it. way too dangerous.
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i'm trying to figure out my logic here but i'm confusing myself. i don't have any links to prove you wrong, but if i do, i'll post it here.
i wouldn't risk it. way too dangerous.
mercurial
MyBB Legend
you say "transmit" and then you say "one-way only". that's 2-way.
rvanwyk
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the irdeto encryption algorithm changes. thats why you need to marry you sc to the decoder for these calculations to work.
imo its still possible to hack a decoder but it wont be easy. it might work for only small intervals before mca changes algorithms.
The satellite transmits to the DSTV receiver, that's one way only. Youur DSTV decoder can't transmit anything back, that's why for their interactive services e.g. email you needed a modem.
rvanwyk
Expert Member
read the post again. you will need a larger dish and more powerfull lnb to transmit in general.
dstv is one way communications only. ie. you receive data and dont send anything back.
* EDIT: two different sentences.
mercurial
MyBB Legend
i'm talking about the part where you say transmit. i'm not talking about the tv card, i know all about that.
ajax
Executive Member
A colleague had one of those hacked smart cards in 2001. He paid about R2000 for it. It worked for about a year. The "hacker" then wanted another R2000 for a "new" smart card which would, in all likelihood, last for about a year again. Maybe that's how often MChoice changed algorithms. My colleague then went the legal route. Too much effort to save R2000 odd compared to the risk and not being able to ask for any service or programme guides etc.
I remember while at Varsity in the late 90's a student walking around with microchips to hack the old MNET decoders. The hack worked very easily on the old decoders. Apparently there was only 1 chip that needed to be replaced.
I remember while at Varsity in the late 90's a student walking around with microchips to hack the old MNET decoders. The hack worked very easily on the old decoders. Apparently there was only 1 chip that needed to be replaced.
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A friend has a few dishes and several decoders for pay channels from the USA and Far east. The dishes point in different directions (obviously) but he is able to use the MChoice decoder with some (not all) of the other smart cards and the decoder picks up the other providers channels. I'm no techie but this tells me it's possible that the decoders are 'universal' and not MChoice specific.
mercurial
MyBB Legend
ok nevermind, i spoke to someone else now who says that guy was talking sh1te to me lol. so i know someone that had this thing for long time now and he says he never got caught. so ya, then i agree with you. but i wouldn't take the chance anyway. i know of people who got caught with the fake mnet chips a long time ago, so if that's possible, who's to say DSTV can't track them down either?
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rvanwyk
Expert Member
if you need to transmit a signal to, let's say PAS7 (or IS7 as its called now) you will need a bigger dish, a more powerfull lnb capable of transmitting and the hardware (like a decoder/encoder, if you want to call it that) to transmit to space.
AFAIK, MChoice uses Irdeto 2 so the decoder should be compatible with any other provider that uses that.
d0b33
Honorary Master
LOL you should stop speaking to random people, SABC also advertised that they can find you if you don't pay your license, it's just to scare the masses I doubt it's possible
rvanwyk
Expert Member
some decoders will be yes, but the dsd930, dsd933, dsd990, dsd1110, dual view and pvr decoders are all proudly south africa.
designed by altech-uec. even the encryption technology, IRDETO, base in the netherlands is owned by naspers.
some standards might be the same around the world but also the IRDETO encryption is used in quite a few other countries. the older PACE decoders will be more universal then the recent mca designs, imo.
mercurial
MyBB Legend
LOL you should stop speaking to random people, SABC also advertised that they can find you if you don't pay your license, it's just to scare the masses I doubt it's possible
and you're willing to take that chance?
PS: it's not a random guy. it's a "techie" and so i took his word for it.
d0b33
Honorary Master
If you don't know the guy then he's random.
I had a TV tuner card in my PC for years that I didn't pay a TV license for but I could watch SABC on it, but why would I want to watch SABC? what a waste that would have been
mercurial
MyBB Legend
If you don't know the guy then he's random.
I had a TV tuner card in my PC for years that I didn't pay a TV license for but I could watch SABC on it, but why would I want to watch SABC? what a waste that would have been
the guy is a colleague.
ToxicBunny
Oi! Leave me out of this...
There is technically no way they can find you if you're using a "fake" card. The technology doesn't have call back facilities, or communication with the satellite.
If your decoder is plugged into a modem, then maybe, but other than that... nope.
If your decoder is plugged into a modem, then maybe, but other than that... nope.
mercurial
MyBB Legend
i find it strange that they don't have any sort of feature/system that allows them to see illegal users accessing their system.
ToxicBunny
Oi! Leave me out of this...
Its just a failing of the technology mostly.... there is no return communication to their central system.