Clampdown on TV 'Dodgy Boxes'

To those who actually understand what is happening, the satellites are not being "hijacked". That would involve compromising the control and telemetry channels (the control signals for the satellite) for the satellite and taking over control of the satellite. That's what hijacking a satellte means. In simple terms, the open transponder will accept any transmission in its bandwidth and will then relay it or retransmit it. The use of the word "hijacking" makes it look so much more exciting, doesn't it? The satellites are not being "hijacked" as this is actually a design feature.

Do you think that your clay footed idols in the media come up with such phrases? Any fool can make something more complex. It takes knowledge and understanding to explain things simply. And as with most businesses, piracy develops its own lexicon and phrases. It is basic marketing.

The broadcasters tend to focus on spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) about dodgybox use. If this FUD propagated by recycled press releases in the media deters people from using dodgyboxes and subscribing to their service, then it is a win for the broadcasters. The problem is that some of the broadcasters seem to be pricing themselves out of the market and people are naturally going for the cheaper option. Previously, the scale of piracy on any system was limited by the number of pirate devices that could be used on that system. That often meant a compromised official box had to be used and that kept the level of piracy down to an "acceptable" level.

What happened with the second generation of dodgybox was that the broadcasters lost control over their programming because the programming could be accessed with devices that were not provided by the broadcaster. The basic model of piracy had changed. That change went unnoticed by the media because they didn't understand the technology of piracy. It is a shame because the dynamics are quite easy to understand.

In simple terms, if an official broadcaster box has to be used to access a service, that limits the potential for piracy. It can never exceed 100%. What has happened with the second generation of dodgyboxes is that broadcasters are faced with competing networks of broadcasters (the dodgybox network operators) using the same programming and these "broadcasters" don't need official hardware for their services. They can use ordinary hardware because it is the software (app) that allows access.

That has worried the rights holders who provide the programming to the broadcasters. Some of the price rises may be due to the broadcasters doing what is known as "sweating the assets". A large percentage of subscribers will continue to subscribe and will not use dodgyboxes. To compensate for the increased costs of programming and the loss of subscribers to dodgybox operations, the broadcasters will increase the subscription fees because they know that many subscribers will continue to pay because it is easier and more convenient than going down the dodgybox route.They will continue to pay until their financial pain threshhold is reached and they stop or downgrade their subscription.

Your phrase "the non technical" includes most of the journalists in the media as very few of them have any deep knowledge of Technology. They are at serious risk of being replaced by relatively simple AI fed by press releases. Did you ever come up with the actual statistics to support those claims of all those millions of visits made by dodgybox owners to websites?

Pirates on Satellites.

When is it in the cinema?

Did anyone experience some server down time yesterday lunchtime?

Mine was down for a couple of hours, until it was sorted. No biggie.

Ahh another "so called expert"

I never claimed to be in the know, not do I work for sky.

I just trying to inform the people spouting rubbish here about technology they think they know best on.

IPTV is the future of TV delivery yes. Illegal IPTV who knows.

Everyone was claiming card sharing would not come to an end.

Amazon could really disrupt illegal streaming by blocking offending apps. They started doing this before xmas but not in any meaningful way. Hard to know if it's internally a complex process or the whole exercise was just a token gesture to appease their content partners.

switched to virgin media now my channels arent working is there a setting in the router to disable to make them work as i know people who have virgin media and same service but stuff works for them. They wouldnt tech savy enough to see the diff in settings to explain to me the difference in their settings to help me out out, anyone here have any ideas? They dont need vpn.