Oh, satellite TV hacks exist - up until about 12 months ago I used to work for one of the companies that provides Content Access systems for satellite, and it w

Oh, satellite TV hacks exist - up until about 12 months ago I used to work for one of the companies that provides Content Access systems for satellite, and it was my personal job to reverse engineer competitors' systems, to see how they worked. As with every other DRM scheme out there, they can be cracked. What the manufacturers have managed to do though, is make the systems hard to crack globally - each box has to be cracked individually, you can't crack one and then apply to the whole park. But then, who cares? If one can be cracked, the torrents of the programs being aired will be up on the trackers the next day, and everyone else can just watch on their PC...