Card Sharing

[ONELOVE]

Any of you guys familiar with the G-Box Midnight MX2 Android 4.2 Jelly Bean Dual Core XBMC Streaming Mini HTPC TV Box Player

 

Turns your tv into a "smart tv" browse the net,streams live sport and movies amongst other things, i was at a sunday market saw some guys giving a demo but it was raining and couldnt hang around.

 

I took some paperwork they was giving out, cost bout a 100.

 

Checked some reviews on youtube etc, what do you man think.

 

Is it worth it?

[seven]

If I remember correctly there's too boxes u need to tick off in the config bit

[seven]

2*

[Incumbent]

after retracing all my steps & re-doing everything

 

[Bruno Di Gradi]

for those who are still on it, uk-sat *the card sharing don im subscribed to* is doign a 20% off xmas deal on all 12 month subs

[Illusion]

Anyone else having problems with UK SAT?

[Illusion]

In the news today:

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-26052012

 

 

Criminal gangs selling hacked pay television services at a fraction of their true cost have been exposed by a BBC investigation.

 

Subscribers to satellite or cable TV can pay more than £80 a month to legitimately receive premium packages.

 

But fraudsters were caught on camera selling set-top boxes which access equivalent packages for £10 per month.

 

In light of the findings, experts warned hacked satellite and cable TV is increasing and becoming the "new norm".

 

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How it works

 

The television signal is received in the usual way, but it is encrypted by the broadcasters in an attempt to prevent piracy. The boxes use the internet to stream the encryption key, allowing the viewer to receive channels. Premier League football, movie premieres - nothing is beyond reach.

 

One of the fraudsters exposed by the BBC London/Inside Out investigation was Gyula Markovits, a Venezuelan satellite dish installer living in south London. He sold hacked boxes that receive every conceivable channel for less than an eighth of the normal monthly price.

 

While installing a hacked system, Mr Markovits was secretly recorded saying: "Yes, of course it's illegal - you're getting something for free that you should be paying for.

 

"They never go after the customers anyway, they go after the guy that runs the network.

 

"You can buy the box and it shows you all the Sky channels for one year - I do it myself. That's a very underground thing, really."

 

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So many people are doing it, it is becoming the norm”

 

Dr Luke McDonagh

Copyright law expert

He boasted that he had 150 customers, generating him almost £20,000 a year in illicit income. Mr Markovits subsequently denied all wrongdoing.

 

Another fraudster, who called himself Ahmed, sold numerous fraudulent packages to researchers from satellite TV shop Golsat in Upton Park, east London.

 

He said of the £150 access to all Sky movies and sport: "This is nothing for what you [are] going to watch, seriously."

 

Within days of being confronted with the BBC's evidence, Golsat appeared to shut down.

 

A poster on the door said it had "closed for refurbishment". Ahmed did not respond to a request for a comment.

 

Under the Copyright Act, those convicted of supplying the equipment could face a 10-year jail sentence and unlimited fine.

 

Sky, BT and Virgin have all refused to reveal how many cases of hacked TV they encounter a year.

 

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A customer's view

 

Nicola Humphries, an estate agent from Maida Vale, said: "I'm paying £27 a month - it's not easy when you've got lots of other things to pay for as well. If I'm paying and someone else is paying virtually nothing for that service, I'm thinking why should they be paying for that service? They shouldn't be getting that service.

 

But the BBC heard of dozens of examples of the fraud spread right across the UK, both in terms of tip-offs and cases currently going through the courts.

 

It is a nationwide problem, with Swansea and Cardiff highlighted as hotspots for pubs using cracked boxes to stream Premier League football.

 

During the investigation, the BBC accompanied City of London Police's Intellectual Property Crime Unit raiding an individual in Liverpool suspected of being the ringleader of a gang supplying the boxes to customers around the country.

 

Documentation was seized and officers continue to investigate.

 

'More widespread'

The BBC heard reports from the police of numerous gangs. Managers at Golsat and Mr Markovits were recorded saying that they were part of a wider gang, implementing, managing, selling and marketing the devices that perpetuated the fraud.

 

And Dr Luke McDonagh, an expert in copyright law at Cardiff University, warns the crime is becoming "the norm" and could soon be as widespread as the illegal streaming of music and movies online.

 

He said: "The problem is there, it's getting more widespread and the big broadcasters are trying to cut down on it by targeting the criminal enterprises that are running these pirated systems.

 

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The hacked set-top boxes stream encryption codes from the internet

"But it's very difficult to crack down on the use of cracked decoders by consumers - so many people are doing it, it is becoming the norm.

 

"If it continues then we may see the broadcasters having to change their model like the music industry has with things like Spotify - it could become that wide-scale."

 

The Federation Against Copyright Theft (Fact) warned the illegal pirating of paid-for television was not a victimless crime.

 

It said money lost to the broadcasters might impact on the commissioning of new drama, while the Premier League loses out on cash that could be passed on to grass-roots football.

 

Fact spokesman Eddy Leviten said: "Is it fair that someone will be able to steal from someone else and that person will not be not paid for their work?

 

"That impacts not just on that one single person but on their families as well, all those who rely on that income."

 

'Significant criminal enterprise'

One of the individuals exposed has now been referred to trading standards.

 

A spokesman for Newham council said that as a result of the BBC's investigation the authority had referred Mr Markovits and his business to its trading standards team.

 

Between them Sky, Virgin and BT have 17.5m legitimate pay-TV customers.

 

Det Insp Andy Fyfe, of City of London Police, said: "This causes a lot of economic harm to the United Kingdom - it's very important we the police take action against those who are criminally supplying set-top boxes.

 

"This is on a relatively large scale, a number of hundred outfits and organisations across the country.

 

"It all adds up to a significant criminal enterprise which is the sort of thing we are set up to try and defeat."

 

Inside Out is broadcast on BBC One London on Monday, 10 February at 19:30 GMT and nationwide on the iPlayer for seven days thereafter.

 

Feel sorry for the Venezuelan guy. He's just trying to make some p and probs sends it home. And now the BBC have fucked it up for him.

[Greens]

On BBC1 now

[Hank Moody]

i got a skybox f5s its glitchy as hell

 

are diferent subs less glitchy then others?

 

does me using my net to download at a high speed gonna affect it?

 

the sub cost 30 for 2 years 

[seven]

i got a skybox f5s its glitchy as hell

 

are diferent subs less glitchy then others?

 

does me using my net to download at a high speed gonna affect it?

 

the sub cost 30 for 2 years 

 

theres your answer

[Illusion]

That does sound mega cheap...

[ONELOVE]

Www.Androidsticks. Co.uk

[Sinister]

Yeah that is cheap bruh.

 

The glitching and connection is only as good as the connection at the server end and how many people are connected to it.

 

At that price, I will assume you must have mad number of people subbing and trying to connect; hence the possible glitching...

[seven]

Wong tred?

[Hank Moody]

this skybox is kinda shit

 

trhe pics a decent HD but the epg and recording is sheg, i didnt realise how important that really is

 

and u cant record 1 chan while u watch another

 

 

so whats the best box for all that ?

[Swiftie]

this skybox is kinda sh*t

trhe pics a decent HD but the epg and recording is sheg, i didnt realise how important that really is

and u cant record 1 chan while u watch another

so whats the best box for all that ?

Dual tuners for the last part of the post.

As for the initial part. There ain't a like for like. But if you set it up right like on my dreambox then the rest just flows.

[Hank Moody]

 

this skybox is kinda sh*t

trhe pics a decent HD but the epg and recording is sheg, i didnt realise how important that really is

and u cant record 1 chan while u watch another

so whats the best box for all that ?

Dual tuners for the last part of the post.

As for the initial part. There ain't a like for like. But if you set it up right like on my dreambox then the rest just flows.

 

 

 

so once i do the setting right it will run as well as sky+??

[Incumbent]

guys i'm moving house, it's a new build & there is a freeview dish

 

will it work even tho it's not sky?

 

or i'm i gonna have install my sky bits at the new house?

[Ari Gold]

Freeview dish? You mean freesat? Or an ariel

[Bruno Di Gradi]

guys i'm moving house, it's a new build & there is a freeview dish

 

will it work even tho it's not sky?

 

or i'm i gonna have install my sky bits at the new house?

if its not a sky and theres a communal dish it will work, thats what mine runs off.

[Incumbent]

Freeview dish? You mean freesat? Or an ariel

 nah its not an ariel

 

its a mini dish, similar in size to the sky dish still

 

u probably right its a freesat dish

[Incumbent]

 

guys i'm moving house, it's a new build & there is a freeview dish

 

will it work even tho it's not sky?

 

or i'm i gonna have install my sky bits at the new house?

if its not a sky and theres a communal dish it will work, thats what mine runs off.

 

 

the signs are good, i hope when my broadband is sorted it will be a smooth switch

[Ari Gold]

Few HD channels been locked off today.

 

Could be the start of something bad.

 

Sky Italy have locked off all HD channels for people using cs.

 

UK might be following

[Sinister]

Which ones?

 

EDIT:

 

Looks like its the following channels at the moment;

 

• Sky Arts HD 1
• Sky Arts HD 2
• National Geographic HD
• National Geographic Wild HD
• History HD
• Crime HD