Tamper at your own risk

Hmm. Does ICASA's statement mean that I can only tune my radio to local stations?

I bought my decoder, so how can it be illegal to tune to public satellite transmissions.

Now if I altered the sim card or decoder to pick up encoded pay for view, that would be illegal.
 
bekdik said:
Now if I altered the sim card or decoder to pick up encoded pay for view, that would be illegal.
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would it? if you altered your car to not use petrol,is it illegal?

i'd say its not illegal, its just like they say, "dont come cry at us if you break it"
 
It wouldn't surprise me if Multichoice is lying. The procedure hardly qualifies as hacking. It merely sets up an additional frequency or network on the decoder. I've tuned mine before, and I have received the updates. When my decoder got a fault last year, I took it in and they didn't charge me one cent for the swop-out I received.
EDIT: The procedure can be found here
http://www.impactradio.co.za/index.php?455
 
This Whole article makes me angry....

Satellite television service provider MultiChoice has warned subscribers who use their DStv decoders to hack into channels the company did not offer that they do so at their own peril.
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Its a VALID Menu! on the UEC decoders! The Decoder allows the user to enter multiple transponders!

Naicker said most of the channels were distributed to churches from the same satellite that DStv uses. He said a "backdoor" existed that allowed individuals to access the channels.
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Backdoor! ... on that note "Channel Scanning, setting your TV to PAL is also a Backdoor"

Acting senior manager of licensing and monitoring Bruce Mkhize said it was illegal to access channels that did not have an agreement with MultiChoice using the company's decoders.
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How can the decoder I purchase WITHOUT signing an agreement saying its "owned by Multichoice" be owned by them.... its MY property.
 
i'm not sure what they talking about but my parents did something to theirs and they could have like 15 more stations, tv and some more radio stations. its nothing with the hardware. you press a whole lot of buttons and voila. so i'm sure if you mess up you can "Reset to factory settings" and then it will work again.
 
RichardP said:
How can the decoder I purchase WITHOUT signing an agreement saying its "owned by Multichoice" be owned by them.... its MY property.
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that is like you buy a adsl modem from one isp then they say its illegal to move to another isp?

i think multichoice is scared people will realise how much more there is out there that multichoice is not providing them with....
The procedure can be found here
http://www.impactradio.co.za/index.php?455
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LOL Hardly seems like "hacking" or illegal if impactradio has it on their website. and there is nothing you can break by doing it. its seems more like pressing hard down on the cars petrol lever to make it go faster than to tune the engen....
 
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what utter bulls**t...

this so called 'hack' involves tuning the damn decoder to another frequency, you do this through the installer menu for which the code is well documented in the decoder manuals.

The broadcast is un-encoded, so where the hell is this is illegal, I'd sure like these ICASA idiots (senior manager my bloody left foot!) to show us what statute in law make it illegal to receive content that plainly unencoded, and if they start this crap about international broadcasts, ask them about short wave radio....

(edit) now that I look at it, it is probably sentech that's broadcasting it, as it seems it's already available on the decoder!

now if you really want you can even tune to botswana TV (boring though!), also Free-To-Air BTW. see http://66.132.244.239/0685/eng/

me-thinks an article published, edited and posted by multichoice, damned fraidy cats that 'welcome' competition!

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tell me something, i have a dstv decoder and dish, but my dstv is off cause its to expensive, would i be able to get these channels? like the botswana stuff or the impactradio stuff?
 
Acting senior manager of licensing and monitoring Bruce Mkhize said it was illegal to access channels that did not have an agreement with MultiChoice using the company's decoders.
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When they pay me to have the decoder taking up space in my house then they can say its theirs. Sounds to me like someone is MultiChoice's lap dog.
 
albert123 said:
tell me something, i have a dstv decoder and dish, but my dstv is off cause its to expensive, would i be able to get these channels? like the botswana stuff or the impactradio stuff?
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yes, some people only use the decoder to get SABC channels, you pay a once off fee of R500 and thereafter I think you pay something like R300 per year.
 
ajax said:
yes, some people only use the decoder to get SABC channels, you pay a once off fee of R500 and thereafter I think you pay something like R300 per year.
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mmmmm so then for R300 per year i can have those "boring" botswana channels and so on? so just how boring are they?
 
It's only because they don't stand to make any money off it. And because they hate religion :p
 
zeb said:
It's only because they don't stand to make any money off it. And because they hate religion :p
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so true, why would they add another lot of stations for the same price? if they put the price up, they would lose subscribers.
 
This is LAUGHABLE!! So, shops like Mr. Price, Joshua Doore, Diskom, Pep, Jet etc that have their "own" radio/tv channels via DStv decoders, have been "hacking" their decoders for years then.

Your decoder is not preset at the factory to pick up these transport streams because it adds no value to the home consumer - apart from maybe checking what is on special at Joshua Doore...?! Oh ja, and checking those Christian channels where they mainly as for "donations" all the time.

Personally I'm surprised that it is called "hacking" your decoder?? You receive those channels anyway from the PAS7 satellite, so what’s the crime in tuning in to them? In fact, it’s nice to receive some domestic radio station with crystal clear reception.

If MultiChoice doesn't want home consumers to watch it, just scramble it!
 
albert123 said:
mmmmm so then for R300 per year i can have those "boring" botswana channels and so on? so just how boring are they?
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What R300 ? It does not cost anything for the free-to-air channels.
I switched off and cancelled my subs with Choiceless after they canned the Sci-Fi channel.

Watch BTV all the time because they only run from about 2pm to 10pm. After that it's BBC World all the way which is how I get all the news - NO COMMERCIALS !!:D They do have the odd good movie on weekends.
Gave us all the World cup live as well. Prime time has a lot of soapies and other boring stuff however.

SABC channels are encrypted on the Sentech frequency tho. Maybe that's the R300 they are talking about.

Etv was removed from the Pas7/10 some time ago and is also only available encrypted via the Sentech boquet now. (or the frequency is not public knowledge).

I think there was a trick to punching in a 4 or 5 digit frequency or symbol rate or something because the choiceless decoders did not accept such a low number, but I got it working somehow, just don't remeber right now.
 
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