Felix Domke schrieb: > > > I have downloaded the whole stuff some time ago (Webpage and programs). I > don't > > have it at home but at my work, so if anyone is interested, just mail me, > I will > > send you a tarball on Monday... > > My first idea was to set up a complete mirror site, but I wouldn't like to > do > > this without the permission or even knowledge of the original author... > Please keep in mind that the use of this program is just ILLEGAL since you > don't own a SECA-license. > > As always, the expensive thing is the LICENSE you buy (if you own a CI) and > not the hardware itself. > > (I don't know why aston is still so happy, but i just want to protect you > and all other developers from HUGE legal problems with Canal+ et al.) > > bye, > felix domke > > -- > Info: > To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as >subject.
Hi, as far as I have seen in the code, there was nothing illegal in there. No attempt to decrypt keys or something like that, just the handling of a received ECM/EMM stream, offering it to the smartcard via a puplically available smartcard-accessing library, and showing the results coming from the card. These keys could be used by the (TI-chip built-in) DVB descrambler to decrypt the stream, if they would exist API calls for that. BTW, you definitely do not need a SECA license to view SECA encrypted channels. The channel provider have to buy one, if they like to crypt their programs that way, and maybe the CAM supplier, when implementing it into hardware, but not you as the customer. It can be only a patent, not law. As long as you do not plan to sell your solution, you won't have any problems. Quite the contrary, if it would be a patent, the knowledge about the system should be already available for the public, therefore maybe it's not even a patent, I suppose. On the other hand it is quite clear, that companies who sell solutions for encryption don't like to spread the knowledge about it over the country, because the more people know about it, the likelier it will be possible to find some weaknesses. But, sorry, that is not my problem. The spirit of open source software is exactly this spreading of knowledge. Imagine, if you would not be allowed to write such kind of software, you could not write anything. The whole Microsoft stuff for instance (think of file formats (Word, Excel, DivX...)) would block everyone from writing software to read these formats without a license. Or even worse, every single user would have to buy one... Please don't mix this topic with the (in fact existent) problem of illegal pay TV watching. And even there: It is not illegal to hack and decrypt the channels without having a valid subscription, but the WATCHING is illegal. Of course it would be quite difficult to argue with the judge, why the hell you would have been interested in hacking the program without watching it. Ok, so much for that. My opinion is, regarding this piece of software we talk about, that it is a demonstration how things could be implemented to get rid of the necessity to have an 'extra' smartcard reader. It is not useful at all at the moment, as the DVB API does not support direct key insertion into the DVB decrambler (maybe this is not even possible). You can use it only to learn something about ECM/EMM streams, which are very hard to get documentation about (for the former mentioned reasons), or about the DVB security system itself. But nothing more !!! Therefore I do not have any retentions to spread the software, as long as the original author does not veto it. Best regards, Rolf -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
