[mythtv-users] CableCARD spoofed by DIY community

[Bill Williamson]

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Erik Hovland <erik at hovland.org> wrote:

> >> The problem is I believe you can not move a cable card from 1 device
> >> to second.
>
> Right now, people have demonstrated spoofing using the same mobo as
> an approved device. So the next step would be spoofing from a different
> mobo but same BIOS family, then...
>
> > If true, that is just silly...  Someone needs to start a DRM-free, IPTV
> system,
> > and show them how it really gets done...
>
> I thought that was MythTV? The Dutch crazies^H^H^H^H users who have
> spoofed their STBs to get IPTV streams are an example of this:
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Sasktel_IPTV
>
>
Mythtv has almost nothing in common with an IPTV system...   "IPTV" is a
very specific term, and is not the same thing as "any video transferred over
a TCP/IP connection."

It's just like how a voice recording sent through email isn't "VOIP" despite
it clearly being "voice over IP".
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