Italian courts rule against Sky's monopoly

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Rome (Point-Computer science) - Who hoped that finally the issue of the decoder was resolved armors you of SKY will remain disappointed:

yesterday Authority TLC that it is inquiring on the issue has decided null: it has been limited to demand to ulterior SKY Italy information on the technical conditions of the production of decoder “compatible” with emittenza SKY. The Authority, pressata from the resources of the Italian producer Comex, before pronouncing on imposing or less to SKY the opening of the decoder to the other producers will have to examine the reasons that the company will produce and all the process could still demand weeks. In particular Agcom wants to understand in the detail which technical characteristics, of emergency and trades them must have decoder “the SKY-ready”. That the issue is centers them is obvious: as very they know the readers of Computer science Point, SKY for a long time is taken advantage of codifies NDS (Videoguard) in order to guarantee to the producers of contained that how much comes transmitted cannot be videoregistrato natively in digita them. And NDS, that it supplies the own services also to other operating European satellitari, end has not never granted licences to producers of decoder generic here. And this because it is in this way thought to guarantee an effective antipirateria protection. Many think but that this “infrastructure” of fact drugs the market, preventing to producers alternated you to propose to the public decoder “others” regarding those supplied from SKY. The fact that some producers, like Philips or Samsung, have the possibility to realize ad hoc decoder goes evidently read like the NDS acknowledgment that those decoder answer to own requirement of emergency. Just yesterday, while, the vice president of the European Commission, Franco Frattini, has made to know that for a definitive decision on the sentence to Italy for the financings to the purchase of decoder the DTT there is from waiting for still some week. In dance, like famous, 220 million euro that the Financial institution 2004 and that one 2005 have allocated in order to favor the spread of the television technology digita them. “Continuous the examination of the issue - Frattini has explained - than is moved to January. Of it we will speak between the 15 and 20 January”. That a sentence arrives is completely probable, like it has emphasized some days before the minister to the Communications Paul Gentiloni, that also it had said, however: “To Me it seems that impossible the final utilizzatori, the purchasers, can be the adressees of the demands for reimbursement”. Some days before Gina Nieri, councilman Mediaset, had revealed the irritation of the group on some hypotheses trapelate with respect to the endorsement. “He is not understood - he had declared - as he is also only hypothetical that the restitution of the aids for the purchase of decoder for the digital Tv them is to cargo of the television societies, than have not benefitted any. To benefit some they have been the customers to which, obviously, it is not possible to ask the restitution”.

sorry for the free translation (originaly Italian)
in short :-
sky Italia is now obliged to disclose with third parties the CAM Crypt algo hence giving license to Receiver's manufatures to make possible the NDS embedding on sky Italia NDS System.
After loosing the Exclusive rights for the sky Boxes now sky is taken to the court to estimate the damaged caused by the 2 years of entire monopoly they have had in the italian market on STB.
thanks to sat key team
Merry xmas everybody

wod

wish that would happen over here then i could properly watch sky tv channels on my tm1500ci or manhattan pvr receiver

i dont see why they dont make a cam as surely cams are secure enough