RE: What happend to TPS on Tuesday | |
TPS is one provider. AbSat is another. Viasat another. And so on. A provider is the party from which you take your subscription.
Official cards are issued by a particular provider for (obviously) just their package. So the normal state of an official subscriber card is that it "contains" keys/idents/etc for just that one single provider.
Hobby cards can be programmed to contain more than one provider. That's why you don't need to insert a different card when switching from SCT to Sexview. So one step towards beating the pirates would be to prevent receivers/CAMs working with such multi-provider cards (thereby knocking out hobby cards but not official subscriber cards).
This is exactly what some providers are working on.
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