Anybody going the route of buying/ or currently using say a Panstat or Fortec satellite Tv reciever that allows free access to satellite TV?I heard one of the disadvantages was that there was no program guide and 3000 stations but some of the higher end ($250) have program gudes built in.
All u need is a dish and one of these recievers? Hows this all work.And is this just plain hacking?
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There are some free satellite TV channels -- basically paid for by the broadcaster. They're mostly religious, from what I've heard.
I think they're all on the old, big-dish satellites.
I know a guy (former co-worker) who steals dish network that way. you start with a pbs-religous reciever, buy some hardware and program it with your computer. Dishnetwork constantly changes their encoding and you have to get new info off the web and follow suit. That is my basic understanding of it, albeit second hand.
Ya know,I've not heard of these but will snoop around.My understanding is that Dish and DTV crippled the hackers by buying the websites(and customer lists)of everyone selling card programmers and suing(ala Napster) the file sharing sites.You have to watch where you go on the Net,if you run a domain name check on some of the hack sites they are actually owned by DirecTV and they contact you in an unfriendly way.
A few years ago the king of the pirates was from Canada,where American satellite signals reach,but which Canadian residents cannot legally receive.He led a network of tech savvy folks in acquiring free entertainment from the airwaves.DTV took him to the Canadian Supreme Court,and if you go to his site now, you can tell they scared the beejesus out of him.I know the pirates can still do it but they are deep underground now.
There was tonnes of the Direct Tv Satelite dishes up here. An American friend gave me one. I live in a little town and on my hockey team of only 15 guys there were 5 guys with the Direct Tv. Direct would scramble the signal evry once in a while and usually within 24 hours the new programs were available. The going rate from a hacker was 5o bucks for 3 months but there was a lot of free sharing going on. About a year ago there was a big crash and sources told me Direct switched to 256 bit technology. Apparently that must be tough to crack because nobody that I know has a running program. I liked it for the big selection of hockey, but with no NHL this year or any time soon I didn't care about losing the service. My antenna still works fine.
Have a good day
Cliffy