RTÉ card swapping now blocked

Maybe this has been noticed before, but it was definitely not the case recently.
If you put your Irish Sky card into a BBC carded or non sub box, you will get the message on RTÉ one and N2 that the card is the wrong one for the box.
TV3 and TG4 are unaffected.
Presumably this is to stop ROI family pack cards going East(and north)

I also noticed this evening that if you have a bbc carded box and tune it to Sky one with the usual Blue phone screen.... and you take out the BBC card real quick and put in your Irish one, you get the English Sky one(presumably depending on the origin of your BBC Card) complete with active buttons and English advertising.
The box reverts to channel 998 if you change channel and then you will have your Irish adds Sky one....if thats what you want...
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Hmm. Maybe it's because GAA is now on RTE (at least it's still on EPG and it's only 20mins away) and they don't want cards floating across to GB or NI as you say.

That must be it, and Gaa is on N2 sky as I type.
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