Been thinking over the past few days about the End of CS and how close we are.
I then got thinking about a a post I read somewhere sometime ago about how Sly used hackers to crack the On Digital/Itv Digital system to allow it to be openly abused and pirated. How much truth is in that I guess we will never know.If the stories about hacking On/itv digital are true, will the same decsions be made in the board rooms of Sly today? Allow C/S to continue until such a stime BT have been wiped out of the market? I guess we wont know for a while, but we can only hope that Sly at the moment are more worried about BT than they are C/S and give us some more time to enjoy the hobby.Now this returns me to my first paragraph about On/ITV Digital, Is it not in slys interest to allow card sharing to continue? As it stands Sly are coping with Cardsharing at present and despite it are still making huge revenues and profits every year. BT on the other hand are spending huge amounts and will be expecting a hige return eventually, if it turns out that they have made a blunder and are unlikely to ever see a return on their investment then its safe to say the shareholders may force the board of directors to change their stance
This is true about the hacking scandal make no bones about that.The source code for kudelski was leaked very early on(1999) with their nagra 1 encryption and it affected providers in countries all over europe and america so it was not just the uk/dishtv/spains via digital/polsat/ntl cable to name a few and although it seemed very easy to everyone in the uk programming mosc cards and funcards for their auntys and uncles it would have taken some serious money to find the source codes so quickly to open backdoors on the said encryption...i also beleive on digital was also hacked by ruppie too and it worked for ruppie as ondigital collapsed very fast after it was compromised..canalsat also had their encryption whacked open by ruppie and it became a hackers war as both providers started hacking each others encryptions..csat made a huge mistake tho when they stated their encryption would never be compromised.
Today BT Sport have stepped in and knocked a huge dent into Sly with the acquisition of the Champions League from 2015. Surely BT will also now rival Sly when it comes down to bids for the Premier League rights, and for the first time in years Sly are falling back against the ring.
Bt sports i beleive is just another way to extract hard earned cash from subscribers same as espn/boxnation/premier sports and so on so where that will end is anybodys guess/we may even end up having to pay for a sports channel for every sport known to man the way its going/we pay for sly sports 1,2,3,4 but thats only certain sports lol but people will still buy sly sports packages as it has for instance the spanish league/big pulling power that is..i also beleive if ruppie told bt to jump they would as i think bt are so far up slys ass they may soon be renamed to btsly haha.
If Cardsharing ends tommorow two three things will happen, 1. People will just take what they can get and opt for Free To Air and whatever is available. 2. some will sub to BT/Sly and increase their user base. 3. People will opt for IPTV or streams.Which option is in Slys best interest? Surely to allow Cardsharing to continue and hit BT`s profits hard. Why would Sly end cardsharing tommorow and allow BT to grow which in turn would give them more Ammo to purchase the premier legue rights and others. If Sly lost the Premier league rights then you can say goodbye to half their viewers id dare say who would be signing up to BT.
Two things to say here
1: Governments
2: Advertising
We all have to realise that governments may be getting involved and ordering providers to do something about cs/some providers may close it down slowly but still abiding by laws while other providers in France for example go all out war against cs on all encryptions at practically the same time.
Advertising seems to rule the world right now so think of what advertising products receive all over the world via hooky boxes connected to cs servers! its food for thought.
MK
