I have been reading tutorials, guides, and all sorts of articles, and I honestly still have no idea what is up and down here. I have the impression that there is some preconception that I am supposed to know something that I don't yet know, so I hope you can bear with a few noob questions.
Preamble: I want to buy some DVB-S2 equipment to watch TV channels, and I am willing to hack some to have a decent HTPC environment going. I have a relatively solid knowledge of Linux - less so for Windows but since this is linuxsat-support.com, I am good, yes?
As I have understood it, "Card sharing" is the act of sharing card info among different folks through some ftp server set up (many tutorials I see use proftpd, an fpt server I know well, but have never used for card sharing purposes, obviously). So, as I understand it, "card sharing" does not include the part of the scheme where the shared card secrets are used in the down and dirty act of descrambling TV signals one has not payed for. Is this correctly understood?
There must be another side of this business for which I have not yet been able to find a tutorial (am I blind?). How does one actually *use* the card data one has received from ones friends (or ones card data pushers, if one is inclined to use one such service)? Can any one explain to me how this is done, or tell me where to find a good and concise tutorial on this specific subject?
Furthermore, I have seen documents explaining that card reader emulators can be produced. The Oscam emu README file (https://github.com/oscam-emu/oscam-emu) is a good read, and I infer from it that this card reader emulating business is not easy. I think I understand that the scheme I am principally considering to cheat, Conax for Canal Digital, has its encryption in two pieces: the card reader and the card itself.
So, if I want to see Canal Digital nordic, I will need a Conax CAM module actually installed (this cannot be emulated due to clever scrambling schemes by the producers), with no card in it since I will be getting card data from elsewhere. Is this also correctly understood?
As you can probably see, it is the practical physical set up I am sorely lacking so, if any one can shed some light into this matter for me, I'd be thoroughly obliged!