<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Simon Hobson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:linux@thehobsons.co.uk">linux@thehobsons.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Please remember that a lot of the developers are in the US, and the list servers are in the US. It might be perfectly legal for you, but even assisting you to legally break encryption is a criminal offense in the US. We'd all like to say "stuff the DMCA", it's a bad law that criminalises several explicitly legal things - it it IS the law (in the US, and now effectively in the UK under a different name) and people coming under US jurisdiction have to bear it in mind.<br>
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</blockquote></div><br>I told I wouldn't mention it again, but can't help to respond to Simon's comment. The way I use my setup is not to "break" encryption! I pay a monthly subscription fee to the Satellite provider. They provide me with a subscription smartcard which gets updated each month (by the provider, as long as I pay may fee) with information to decrypt the encrypted DVB streams. This mechanism also makes sure that I can only decrypt what I pay for (e.g. no extra sports channels). This is fully in line with the end user terms of that provider, hence my claim on that it is legal. I can't imagine that this is illegal in the States and would expect there are content providers there which have a very similar subscription system, but I won't make claims on that not being a US citizen nor legal expert. It's not breaking encryption. It's just decryption with the keys provided by the provider based on my subscription information and fees. <br>