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[dil]

NDS wants to stop the Dreambox

Thursday, 08 September 2005

NDS who developed the Videoguard encryption which is used by Sky UK/Italia is in war with Dream Multimedia who produces the Dreambox.

It started last year with NDS demanding Dream Multimedia to remove the Ethernet Connector on all Dreamboxes. Also NDS demanded to cease the publication of the open-source software which is used by all Dreamboxes. Of course Dream Multimedia didn't listen to these ridiculous demands.

Now NDS wants the ETSI organisation who is responsible for the DVB standard to reject the license to all Dreamboxes. All Dreamboxes are fully DVB compliant, which is already approved http://www.dvb.org/index.php?id=104&mid=2831

This license could be in danger because NDS is a big investor in ETSI.

Although the DVB license is very important to Dream Multimedia they still could produce Dreamboxes, but they couldn't be sold anymore with the DVB logo.

Finally NDS wants IBM to stop supplying the PowerPC cpu to Dream Multimedia, because their receivers wouldn't be DVB compliant, if the license isn't valid anymore.

Why is NDS taking these actions to the developer of a very popular Satellite receiver? The Dreambox is at this moment one of the few open-standard Satellite receivers who is capable to decrypt (legal) NDS/Videoguard cards. Because of the Ethernet connector on almost every Dreambox cardsharing has become reality. This would be the major concern of NDS at the moment, because it's quite easy to share NDS/Videoguard cards this way.

Для тех, кто не в теме: для совместного использования карты достаточно скорости обычного последовательного порта..

Comments

[pzrk.livejournal.com]

Я правильно помню, что в твоем блоге таких принято называть ненатуралами?

[dil.livejournal.com]

Не, это случай из серии "поздно пить боржоми, когда почки отвалились" :)