I have played with satellite for over 20 years, I watch with bemusement, ***'s efforts to kill off the illegial card servers at a cost of millions, I'm legal, pay for my cards just have difficulty with slotting a *** box into a wall mounted flatscreen, all my thomson boxes are mine, many new, and I prefer the picture on my other TV's from the component output anyway. I dont want a new box with strings, I'm very happy with my Thomsons, do everthing I want. CS'ers cannot operate without access to the Internet, does not matter how clever you try to be with VPN's, at a ISP somewhere the trail will emerge, an EU 'Cease and Desist' to an ISP giving the IP and Port of the CS exit will result in the Criminals being quickly shut down , no low-life is bigger than a company. ISP's Europe wide rely on Goverment Licences to remain in business, any evidence of criminality = no licence, conectivity is not somthing you buy at the corner shop, the transit internet is in the hands of very few. All this money spent chasing shadows instead of creating a C+ option. Where am I in all this, I own my ISP business with its own duct and fibre in the ground, connecting all my datacentres and interconnecting to other peering points in 5 countries. My people get a 'Cease and Desist', we investigate where the IP went on that date and time, 'speed is essentual as the records are normally only kept for a few days but the big CS crooks dont operate from an ADSL, easy peasey. A push off a key and that crook is gone, Ahh, you say, they will only move to a country with less 'easier' control, will not do much good as we transit suppliers keep an active 'black list' that blocks access to that exit point. Biggest 'Lie' of the 21st century is that the internet is some sort of 'wild west', it is only a web of inter connected routers with equipment hung of spurs, be any IP device like a camera or an illegal card server. It is the most highly controlled and monitord 'uncontrolled' place in the world. Its size is its only protection, but identification by a unique ip address make it a very exposed place to be. I'm still annoyed that I have lost 5 HD channes on my Thomson boxes with paid for cards. *** want to persist with the two stage 'box key' fine, jus give us a box that has component outlets or even better, a C+ option with an Lan connection to allow location to be controlled. Old technology relying on dial up modems and CLI are easily, with effort and money, are circumventable, IPs are not, they can be 'cloaked' but can be traced none-the -less. Didnt say, I used to install, test and program public main telephone exchanges, System X, SPC Xbar etc have all been superseaded but legacy things like CLI have become much cheaper to alter. Exactly the same principal, trace to the exit/entry point and with co-op from the 'telco' or ISP or Network Transit Provider find the thief.
Enough
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