This happened also in Italy in the late 90s/ early 00s. Everyone could buy for a few lire (there was no euro at that time) a smart card to watch every program o

This happened also in Italy in the late 90s/ early 00s. Everyone could buy for a few lire (there was no euro at that time) a smart card to watch every program on satellite pay TV. Periodically you had to check on some pirate website the crypto codes and reprogram the smart card. It was a very simple process that every person with little computer skills can do. After some years these codes start changing so fast (more than one time for day) and it was impossible to continue decoding. Everyone suspect that it was a clever politics by satellite broadcasting to make people used to premium satellite broadcasting