On 05/06/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ruud Boersma</b> <<a href="mailto:ruud@claru.nl">ruud@claru.nl</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Op dinsdag 05-06-2007 om 17:56 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef David<br>Campbell:<br>> James Buckley wrote:<br>> ><br>> > Well some things can be in a grey area (in the eyes of the law), where as<br>> > other things are obviously illegal. I'm not trying to be a spoil sport,
<br>> > just<br>> > don't want to see MythTV get into trouble, I'm sure you can understand<br>> > that...<br>><br>> I do and I agree conversations like that have no place on the list.<br>>
<br>> Having said that - highly illegal makes it sound like treason or killing<br>> children.<br>><br>> Illegal would have sufficed :)<br><br>Why is it illegal? I have to pay my television network provider for a
<br>monthly subscription, to get a smartcard. That smartcard can be used<br>with the device (dvb-t) tuner that they provide or can be used by a<br>device used in a computer. These tuner card are being sold on the<br>commercial market. The ony question is: do these cards allready work
<br>using linux?</blockquote><div><br>You are correct, what you want to do is perfectly fine, however the quote:<br><br>>I think i'm going to use a phoenix comp. smartcard reader (only 15 euro)<br>>and a softcam (cam emulator) to use my canaldigital subscription
<br>>(satellite). That way i don't need a CAM just to use the smartcard.<br></div><br><div>is not. Softcams are illegal (amongst other reasons) because they allow you to 'share' the card across multiple readers.
<br><br>In answer to your question, searching for 'Twinhan DVB-T Ci' in google revealed this: <a href="http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/2005-June/002455.html">http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/2005-June/002455.html
</a><br>It looks like people have tried before. Note that the post is fairly old (2.6.10 kernels in 2005), so support may have improved. Try just searching around for google.<br><br>I also found a link to a patch (<a href="http://readlist.com/lists/vger.kernel.org/linux-kernel/24/122967.html">
http://readlist.com/lists/vger.kernel.org/linux-kernel/24/122967.html</a>) although I don't know what it fixes/enables.<br><br><br>Sorry for the blanket 'illegal' statement, I should have directed it more specifically.
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