Yeah, the law in the US is a right B***H. And I totally understand the developers not wanting to be the guinea pigs in a test case...<div><br></div><div>IIRC the DMCA legislation that is the stumbling block actually makes the differentiation between digital rights management and "effective" digital rights management.</div>
<div><br></div><div>It would be an interesting case (on someone elses dime naturally) to test at what point a cracked DRM becomes ineffective... is it at the point of being broken, the point at being made public or when a particular percentage of users knows about it, or something else?...</div>
<div><br></div><div>anyway, as to the UK satellite system... There are two operators of satellite service in the UK. Sky and FreeSat. They both use the same satellites. Sky use proprietary boxes and requirea viewing card pretty much all the time even for non-paid for channels. Sky uses NDS encryption for many of its channels and there are no legitimate CAMs available. Sky will let you carry on watching free tv on one of their boxes just by asking to cancel your subscription and ask to be transferred to free-to-air tv, but even after this transition remove the viewing card and pretty much everything stops working.</div>
<div><br></div><div>FreeSat can be used by anyone with a DVB-S set-top box and does not require any satellite viewing card... it is truly free-to-air so can be used with MythTV and a standard satellite input card (like a Nova S2 HD card like previously mentioned - I use one myself for just this reason).</div>
<div><br></div><div>With regard to your query; look up the satellite provider on a satellite forum, such as kingsofsat - <a href="http://en.kingofsat.net/">http://en.kingofsat.net/</a>. Here you will find the encryption methods, you can then look to see if there are CAMs available and/or other methods.</div>
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