All Chipped Cable Boxes Going Down
12-04-2008, 18:11
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Re: All Chipped Cable Boxes Going Down
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If it got rid of a few free loaders then I'm sure Virgin will think its been successful. There can only be a finite number of MOSC's (Modified Original Smart Cards) so people will have to use the other types of cards, Nagra will continue to investigate ways to knock cards out again and again, until Virgin are finally in a position to start simulcrypting and eventually change over to the next CA system whatever that may be.
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What about the new extra strength emu?
Isn't that going to solve the problems?
What about the AU?
Some of the boxes had new firmware too...
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12-04-2008, 18:42
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Re: All Chipped Cable Boxes Going Down
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What about the new extra strength emu?
Isn't that going to solve the problems?
What about the AU?
Some of the boxes had new firmware too... |
I've not been involved for years at Virgin, I don't follow any of the hacking forums either so have no idea what the current trends are. In my day Fun cards were all the rage!
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12-04-2008, 19:45
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Re: All Chipped Cable Boxes Going Down
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Originally Posted by iglu
What about the new extra strength emu?
Isn't that going to solve the problems? |
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What about the AU?
Some of the boxes had new firmware too...
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It seems that certain boxes are able to auto-update again. I'm not sure if those are chipped, clones or whetever, though.
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15-04-2008, 08:32
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Re: All Chipped Cable Boxes Going Down
People using mosc's were fine, there was an Atmega fix out after a couple of days and then a Fun fix over the weekend. So, it's all back to normal.
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15-04-2008, 08:53
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Re: All Chipped Cable Boxes Going Down
It might help VM if they took on a couple of the hackers & crackers who so easily bypass whatever's put in front of them. Technology breaks it, technology fixes it.
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15-04-2008, 10:40
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Re: All Chipped Cable Boxes Going Down
As far as I am aware the people I know using dodgy cable boxes are now up and running. It does make it tempting to buy one when you see how easy it is to get free tv. Why don't virgin introduce a 'shop a cable theif' campaign, giving the person who shops someone in free tv for a year. That would certainly make those doing it, i.e stealing, think twice.
If I was a virgin customer, I for one have no incentive to report anyone I know using a dodgy box because my subscription will stay the same irregardless of whether he gets done or not.
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15-04-2008, 11:19
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Re: All Chipped Cable Boxes Going Down
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Originally Posted by Enuff
It might help VM if they took on a couple of the hackers & crackers who so easily bypass whatever's put in front of them. Technology breaks it, technology fixes it.
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For all we know, they may do. If they did, they certainly wouldn't discuss it publically.
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15-04-2008, 17:22
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Re: All Chipped Cable Boxes Going Down
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Originally Posted by Saaf_laandon_mo
As far as I am aware the people I know using dodgy cable boxes are now up and running. It does make it tempting to buy one when you see how easy it is to get free tv. Why don't virgin introduce a 'shop a cable theif' campaign, giving the person who shops someone in free tv for a year. That would certainly make those doing it, i.e stealing, think twice.
If I was a virgin customer, I for one have no incentive to report anyone I know using a dodgy box because my subscription will stay the same irregardless of whether he gets done or not.
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15-04-2008, 18:35
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Re: All Chipped Cable Boxes Going Down
With what VM are doing and planning on doing i have no incentive to want to do anything to help them. If they do what they do with all the caps and phorm I would be tempted in fact very tempted to get hold of a few cloned modems and a certain brand of box to get what I actually pay for. If VM are happy to rip me off ill certainly not shed a tear if I rip them off some also. My tune has changed since VM decided to stuff the customer
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15-04-2008, 19:13
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Re: All Chipped Cable Boxes Going Down
i see all the boxes are up and running again why am i wasting money on a xlsub 2 months would pay for one of them boxes.
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15-04-2008, 19:35
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Re: All Chipped Cable Boxes Going Down
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Originally Posted by Saaf_laandon_mo
As far as I am aware the people I know using dodgy cable boxes are now up and running. It does make it tempting to buy one when you see how easy it is to get free tv. Why don't virgin introduce a 'shop a cable theif' campaign, giving the person who shops someone in free tv for a year. That would certainly make those doing it, i.e stealing, think twice.
If I was a virgin customer, I for one have no incentive to report anyone I know using a dodgy box because my subscription will stay the same irregardless of whether he gets done or not.
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if you do something like that then expect a couple of visits from whoever you shopped,
its not too hard to find out who shopped you
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15-04-2008, 19:51
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Re: All Chipped Cable Boxes Going Down
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Originally Posted by Enuff
It might help VM if they took on a couple of the hackers & crackers who so easily bypass whatever's put in front of them. Technology breaks it, technology fixes it.
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If you believe Echostar it could well be NDS (provider of Sky's encryption system).
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15-04-2008, 19:55
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Re: All Chipped Cable Boxes Going Down
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Originally Posted by hardtarget
if you do something like that then expect a couple of visits from whoever you shopped,
its not too hard to find out who shopped you
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Last time I checked it was also illegal to threaten people and or intimidate them - I will not have it done on this forum either.
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15-04-2008, 20:04
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Re: All Chipped Cable Boxes Going Down
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Last time I checked it was also illegal to threaten people and or intimidate them - I will not have it done on this forum either.
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how is it a threat?
it is advice,
its all common sense and happens everyday,
what i was trying to say is he should just mind his own business and not get into unneccessary trouble and hassle.
as far as me threatening him goes for goodnes sake the guy lives in london which is like 300 miles away from me.
sometiems the staff really need to assess the posts and not just go over the top
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15-04-2008, 20:17
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Re: All Chipped Cable Boxes Going Down
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how is it a threat?
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That is like asking why 2 + 2 = 4.
You just made a statement which says along the lines that if people 'grass' on others, those being 'grassed' up will pay the 'grasser' a visit - this is surely a threat.
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Originally Posted by hardtarget
it is advice,
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No it's surely a threat.
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its all common sense and happens everyday,
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And its why this country is ruin to the likes of people who take the law into their own hands and or threaten honest folk.
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what i was trying to say is he should just mind his own business and not get into unneccessary trouble and hassle.
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I know full well what you was trying to say - I think people should make it their business when they are paying for services and other people don't pay anything.
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as far as me threatening him goes for goodnes sake the guy lives in london which is like 300 miles away from me.
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Make your mind up - you said it would be easy to pay someone a visit if they grassed and then in the next breath, you wouldn't be prepared to travel.
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Originally Posted by hardtarget
sometiems the staff really need to assess the posts and not just go over the top
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How about you practise what you preach then? 
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