Clampdown on TV 'Dodgy Boxes'

The viewing card number has appeared on the top right of the screen during events on sky sports for a few years now. That’s been encrypted by the IPTV boys. What they can’t stop is when the official box randomly puts out the same number on an advert within say a sky sports logo in say the middle of the screen. This happens too.

How do they get around this?

Easy, by using a box that’s not from the provider that can open the channel through hacked means.

Thats how they do it.

Privately, Icam - which is the second encryption used by some providers is hacked and in use by IPTV to be the source of the channels.

That can’t be sourced by the provider.

To try and catch/discourage pubs or other commercial entities. Walk into a pub and see a blurred watermark its prosecution time.

Pubs pay huge money for games. Thats where the losses ste.

The encryption hasn't been hacked as otherwise card sharing would be back. Far cheaper to deliver than IPTV.

What does hacking 28e mean? If you are talking about the satellite itself, that's the stuff of conspiracies

I believe Sky were rotating the decryption keys every few minutes. It was possible to use a legitimate box to determine the valid decryption keys and these were then shared with other boxes in realtime

Card sharing was also more reliable than IPTV and no real need for internet. A hotspot off a phone done the trick.

Neither work without the internet. Also the genesis of card sharing was peer to peer not server to peers. Peer to Peer was rock solid.

The reliability of both was determined by the quality of the server and the saturation of that server.

When CS was at it's peak the main servers were in Northern Cyprus, with everyone else just being a reseller of these. They weren't actually very reliable and grew worse, to the point that motorised dishes or multi lnbs became very popular in order to pick up packages around Europe whose key change was less frequent.

The most reliable packages being the ones where the key changes happened every few days, the STBs would automatically download these changes when they were posted on a specific server. The most popular was a couple of packages from Bulgaria, Turkey, Holland and a package that the American military provided for their armed forces.

IPTV took it's time on reliability, but no it's far more reliable now than CS ever was, plus there is no fecking around with softcam or image updates.

Again, it all depends on the quality of the server you are using.

I like smarters

How would I go about buying a VPN. Im I.T. illiterate😫

Don’t think so and you can be sure it would be more than €60 a year!

Moved to IBO pro app on my Smart TVs recently as was with Smarters Player which was starting to get buggy and laggy for some reason on the smart TVs. £6 is worth it for IBO on the smart TV's.

On android devices it's a mix of XCIPTV skinned app and IBO I use.

Happy enough with them all at present.

@Gusser09 many thanks for info. Much appreciated.

Resellers been targeted have themselves to blame as they are openly advertising an illegal product on social media. My supplier will ban you if you pass his details to anyone without permisson, doesn't accept paypal or revolut, the ones who operate quietly will continue to be fine. Its greed will be the undoing of many resellers.

Yeah that doesn't make sense. It would be very hard to link payments to those platforms to IPTV.

Crypto. Which makes it difficult for the average joe to sign up and keeps the idiots off the service.

Too many idiots sending payments with "dodgy box" or "dodgy sky" on the comments.

Yep same telegram, you need to go through 3 apps to actually download the IPTV panel, must use a VPN too.

Going strong over 5 years, 4k streams, I like that he knows what he's into and takes the necessary precautions to protect himself and his cusotmers. Over some idiot that is plastering his service accross META's platforms.