Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > of pay tv services. The LinuxDVB driver developers have made an > enormous contribution to the Linux community by making the DVB driver > available as an Open Source project. However, all these efforts may
I simply think that CAM manufacturers made an *incompatible* system with open source: they used a security through obscurity model. This quickly lead to pirate cards and hacked firmwares (nokia mediamaster, humax, and now dvb cards etc etc). > be endangered if we don't take that final step and make subscription > tv possible under Linux. After all, if the driver is ever to be used > in any commercial STB, it will HAVE to support CAMs - or am I missing > something here? you're surely right, but I still think the softcam patch brings a LOT more users than any other feature of vdr/linux-dvb - maybe I'm wrong, maybe not. bye as -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
