Al Jazeera EPL announcement

[digicon]

Looks like Paired receivers from january to combat Piracy

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[benny/9]

i see they are irdeto boxes and they are on ebay for ?100 buy now
so it looks like you can still buy a card and view or can it be viewed.

[popi110]

We will be launching a new, secure set top box in January and with the help of our customers we will move into a piracy free situation as soon as possible.

will this not just bump up the price and make streaming more attractive
Mmmmmmm

[digicon]

And how do you think they do the streaming in the first place without access to a 3rd party source box they will somehow have to get it direct from the streams them selves which wont be easy

[LindaJones]

Writing on the walls...

[popi110]

Its not that hard to encode back to a multicast server from a tied reciver or official stream just expensive to do it correctly all this will do is push the price up for 3pms

[fastglass]

A local sat shop owner told me a while ago that when JSC pair cards, that a AbuDhabi Humax box would be required. (of course, which he had in stock!)

In simple terms, what would be achievable with one of these boxes over a normal cc*#m capable box? Or is it no longer relevant given the latest statement above?

[Benzade]

I heard this rumour a while back myself one theory was the Ethernet port on the new boxes will be disabled/non existent. We all know that other broadcasters have already gone down this pairing receivers to cards route and we also know that it hasn't completely stopped the piracy of their services just made it more underground.