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  Pirate decryption - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The concept of pay TV is almost as old as TV itself and involves a broadcaster deliberately transmitting signals in a non-standard, scrambled or encrypted format in order to charge viewers a sizeable subscription fee for the use of a special decoder needed to receive the scrambled broadcast signal.
Early pay TV broadcasts in countries such as the United States used standard over-the-air transmitters; many restrictions applied as anti-siphoning laws were enacted to prevent broadcasters of scrambled signals from engaging in activities to harm the development of standard free-to-air commercial broadcasting.
Pirate or grey-market reception also provides viewers a means to bypass local flout restrictions on sporting events and to access hard-core pornography from places such as the Bible Belt where some content is not otherwise available.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pirate_decryption   (4349 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
PIRATE TV To Americans, pirate TV means the guy whose face appeared illegally on a cable TV channel a few years ago.
Pirates here are often dedicated idealists broadcasting a message not to the liking of governments in power.
The earliest example I've found of Eastern European pirate TV is a series of clandestine broadcasts in 1968 in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
www.textfiles.com /anarchy/kanalx.txt   (2758 words)

  
 mediageek: Pirate TV: from Italy and Argentina to the US?
While this may be the start of a new pirate TV movement in the US, pirate TV has been alive in Italy for several years and was used in Eastern Europe during Soviet times.
This video puts the pirate TV into the larger context of Italian media consolidation, which is more severe and disturbing than even the US context, given that Prime Minister Berlusconi is also the nation's biggest media baron.
As I mentioned before, the spread of pirate TV in the US may be limited by the dwindling number of people relying on over-the-air broadcast TV, although that population is arguably poorer and more in need of radical information.
www.mediageek.org /archives/002439.html   (488 words)

  
 Pirate TV - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pirate TV was a show on MTV that premiered January 26, 1990.
Set on a boat that beamed illegal television signals, Pirate TV consisted of skits and parodies of commercials and television programs, including Rastapiece Theater, a takeoff of Masterpiece Theatre with a dreadlocked, patois-speaking host, and "Reejok" (jockstraps with inflatable pouches, a la Reebok's "Pump" sneaker, popular at the time).
The channel is accessable only to viewers using illegally modified receivers, and consists solely of a tape loop confirming that the connection is illegal, followed by an offering of amnesty to illegal viewers if they call a special toll-free number and subscribe to the service legally.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pirate_TV   (230 words)

  
 Pirate TV: page on Beyond TV
Pirate TV, an online tv channel backed by members of Coldcut and their label Ninja Tune, is busy pumping out new urban electronic music and activist tv across the worldwide web
Pirate TV, an online tv channel backed by members of Coldcut and their label Ninja Tune, is busy pumping out new urban electronic music across the worldwide web.
The channel was born out of the excitement of early London pirate radio days, frustration with the dumbing down of legal stations and the straightjacket of commercial television.
www.beyondtv.org /pages/page.php/5/prt   (651 words)

  
 Millions turn to net for pirate TV | P2P Unite
If you are a fan of TV drama Lost but are not able to watch it on US TV, it is not hard to find episodes on the internet.
The pirating of popular TV shows is a growing problem for the TV industry as viewers increasingly demand their own viewing timetables.
Pirate Bay, a popular BitTorrent tracker website, has tens of thousands of people exchanging files, typically movies and TV programmes, at any one time.
www.p2punite.org /?q=node/808   (764 words)

  
 mediageek: Fight Obsolescence with Pirate TV
Daily blog, Jason Torchinsky asks what to do with the millions of analog TV sets when digital TV finally becomes the standard and analog signals go dark in 2009.
I interviewed Dunifer about his unlicensed TV plans on the March 25 edition of the radioshow.
However, the complicating factor will be what the FCC plans to do with the old analog TV spectrum, since the federal government is licking its lips over all the anticipated cash that will stream in when that spectrum is auctioned off.
www.mediageek.org /archives/002675.html   (311 words)

  
 The week in review: Pirate TV | CNET News.com
The week in review: Pirate TV An age-old battle to prevent people from pirating cable TV signals flares up again, and high-speed Internet connections are part of the reason.
A small but growing group of cable TV pirates are using their high-speed Internet connection to pilfer video signals.
Siphoning TV access from cable modem lines is just one wrinkle to widespread cable piracy, but companies such as AT&T Broadband, Cox Communications and Comcast Cable Communications say they are aware of this specific kind of theft and are taking various measures to stop it.
news.com.com /2100-1023-934030.html   (1196 words)

  
 European satellite-TV pirate card encyclopaedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Or the TV channels themselves, who want everyone to be able to watch their channel (the channels only pay the film makers per subscriber, not per viewer).
Philips CTU 900 decoders for Dutch cable TV could be used as satellite TV decoders, but to get a perfect picture quality they need to be modified slightly.
Pirate cards for the previous generation was made by cloning the ASIC chip in an original card, and by cutting a wire in an expired original card so the card was turned on again.
hem.passagen.se /sat/encyclo.htm   (5669 words)

  
 405 Alive - History - Pirate Television
The apparent success of the offshore pirate radio stations around the British Isles in the 1960s led several of their owners to consider television as well.
Tower TV was to broadcast from the Sunk Head fort in the sea 14 miles off Walton on the Naze on the Essex coast.
Caroline TV was to be broadcast from a plane, similar to the American Stratovision experiments of many years previously.
www.bvws.org.uk /405alive/history/pirate_tv.html   (989 words)

  
 disinformation | a quick and dirty guide to diy media: broadcasting   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Despite the fact that most pirate broadcasters are non-commercial there have been several cases of the FCC fining broadcasters and confiscating their equipment, so beware.
Pirate television is mostly useful for broadcasting short clips and is safest when mobile.
A guide to creating pirate television stations can be found at the Free Media Archive.
www.disinfo.com /archive/pages/article/id1971/pg1/index.html   (641 words)

  
 TV Writer.Com Message Board - "Pirate TV"
But one Dunifer devotee who runs a pirate TV station in San Francisco said the benefits are worth the risks.
Monkey said five volunteers run the TV station, which he said broadcasts from "a little island in the middle of the bay." Branching off from Pirate Cat radio, which broadcasts on 87.9 FM, the station airs talk and public affairs programming, and its signal travels as far the I-5/I-580 interchange between Tracy and Manteca.
Monkey said the pirate broadcasting movement is in its third generation, with Dunifer as the grandfather.
www.tvwriter.com /htdocs/dcforum/DCForumID15/659.html   (1403 words)

  
 A third of us are TV pirates: survey | APC Magazine
Over a third of Australian broadband users are now regularly downloading pirated television episodes on their home internet connection, according to Whirlpool's latest survey of over 16,000 of its members.
The other thing that annoys me is the fact TV stations namely 7, 9 and 10 can not run on time and purposely stagger their shows meaning you have to miss the start of one or the end of another.
The most likeley bit of tv to be pirated from australian TV is the Chopper Sketch from the Ronnie Johns show.
www.apcstart.com /site/dwarne/2006/05/99/a-third-of-us-tv-pirates-survey   (4984 words)

  
 San Francisco's Only Pirate TV Station : SF Indymedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Pirate/Community Radio Station, Pirate Cat Radio 87.9fm will be launching its new addition to the airwaves "Pirate Cat TV Channel 13".
Pirate Cat TV Channel 13 is set on being the publics true media alternative.
Pirate Cat TV will hold a launch party at the Odeon Bar in San Francisco, New Years Day at 5pm.
sf.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=1707866   (271 words)

  
 International Talk Like A Pirate Day
Pirates on TV: PinchyLobster, a new media-related site, has rounded up a list of all the pirate-related TV programming they can find in the days leading up to Sept. 19 - including the ABC Wench Swap episode!.
The group blog Pererro will observe Talk Like a Pirate Day not only as part of their daily column "Today is...", but also by having their very own Pererro Pirate (also known as Capt'n Pererro) officate posts for the day.
Liz Schier, the Pirate Guys' editor at Penguin New American Library, is the winner of the 2006 Hotties of Publishing award sponsored by the GalleyCat blog.
www.talklikeapirate.com /buzz.html   (1116 words)

  
 Lost and desperate, we're turning to piracy - National - theage.com.au
Downloading TV through file-swapping programs such as BitTorrent and eDonkey is a fiddly process, but any home computer with a broadband connection can download a high-resolution copy of a TV show within a couple of hours.
Mr Pesce says downloading pirate TV is still difficult enough to deter internet novices, but this will change as soon as someone launches a user-friendly program.
Envisional's list of the most popular pirate TV downloads last year could give Channel Seven serious pause: their latest seasons of 24, Lost and Desperate Housewives are all in the top 10.
www.theage.com.au /news/national/why-these-people-are-turning-us-into-pirates/2006/02/11/1139542445546.html?page=fullpage   (1134 words)

  
 6 Months of Pirate Tv in SF : SF Indymedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Pirate Cat TV started broadcasting January 1st 2005, and with few interuptions, has continued to stay on the air and become the only 24 hour Pirate TV Station on the west coast.
Pirate Cat TV's programing varies from political documentrys to the newest bbc Dr Who episodes.
The Pirate TV station is urging others their videos.
sf.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=1715410   (219 words)

  
 Digit - Features - Pirate TV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
And TV fans are finding that cable stations are limiting their ability to time-shift shows; pending federal legislation may curtail their rights even more.
By March 1, 2007, according to Federal Communications Commission rules, all new TV devices (tuners, VCRs, DVRs, and set-top boxes) for sale in the United States must be capable of receiving digital TV signals.
In 2003, the FCC ruled that over-the-air digital TV shows must carry an 8-bit “flag” that broadcasters could use to limit how viewers recorded such programs; all TV gear would have had to recognize this flag.
www.digitmag.co.uk /features/index.cfm?FeatureID=1413   (1633 words)

  
 pirate direct tv signal???? - High Def Forum - Your High Definition Community & High Definition Resource
Hi and as illegal as this sounds i have heard that near 2 million ppl have pirated the direct tv signal.
And at best a pirated card usually lasts a short time since D* is aware that people are using them and is constantly working on their security measures.
D* was able to get a court order to go into the records of companies that sold equipment that could be used for pirating, such as card programmers.
www.highdefforum.com /showthread.php?t=5246   (663 words)

  
 The Chronicles of Des and Mick - Pirate TV
Des slumped down into a corner of the cabin, as Captain B-E droned on with his pirate propaganda, while the rest of the pirate crew raided the galley for food.
By nightfall, the pirates had obviously got tired after their exhausting day, and settled down to sleep, having put on a pre-recorded tape of pirate propaganda.
No one could see Pirate TV, because its transmissions were still being blocked out by Wayne Coach's own pirate station.
www.tvradiobits.co.uk /desandmick/dm261.htm   (2688 words)

  
 Pirate News TV
This Hollywood award-winning miniseries is based upon the Pirate News' website, September 911 Surprise, as discussed on world-wide radio and seen on Japanese TV on 9/11/2004.
Pirate News producer John Lee participated in the manufacture of this all-plastic aircraft, at the Lancair factory in Oregon.
Amazingly, Beau was driving a modified racecar in races at Road Atlanta within 12 months of losing his leg, and even snow skied and water skied, not to mention bar hopping, screwing prostitutes and stealing Porsches for the Jewish car theft mafia with world HQ in Knoxville Tennessee protected by Knox Sheriff Tim Hutchison.
piratenews.org /knoxville_tennessee911terrorists.html   (5752 words)

  
 Beginner Guide to making TV Pirate Cards
Satellite TV is broadcast from an "uplink" to a satellite, where the signals are bounced back towards earth.
However, the functionality of a genuine smartcard can be emulated with a "pirate" smartcard (though it isn't really "pirated" because it's not a cloned genuine card but simply a card that works in the same way as a genuine card).
When the TV company wants to make it difficult for pirate card users, they send a message via the satellite which is received by all original cards.
hem.passagen.se /sat/tutorial.htm   (3336 words)

  
 Cuba signals crackdown on pirate TV - Breaking News - World - Breaking News
The Communist Party newspaper Granma warned that the dishes, which many Cubans use to watch Spanish-language TV programs from the exile bastion of Miami, could be used by the US government to broadcast subversive information.
US-funded TV and Radio Marti, run out of Miami, have pumped up their output of anti-Castro programming, but few Cubans are believed to have access to the stations because of successful jamming by the Cuban government.
By contrast, there may be as many as 10,000 illegal TV satellite dishes in Cuba, each one linked to perhaps hundreds of televisions by cables that their owners snake over rooftops and between buildings, charging other users $US10 ($A13.19) a month.
www.theage.com.au /news/World/Cuba-signals-crackdown-on-pirate-TV/2006/08/10/1154802992257.html   (435 words)

  
 A Televised Revolution: Pirate TV Comes to Berkeley   ANNA OBERTHUR / Berkeley Daily Planet 26nov04   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
They’re the parts to a TV channel, and the newest wave in micropower media—low wattage, garage-style broadcasting, sometimes referred to as pirate radio, that usually operates without a license.
Accessing the majority of viewers who now get their TV from cable companies and therefore wouldn’t be likely to stumble across a micropower station could prove challenging.
“TV has certainly got to be probably the primary means of maintaining the propaganda environment,” Dunifer said.
www.mindfully.org /Reform/2004/Berkeley-Liberation-Radio26nov04.htm   (817 words)

  
 Current TV // Undercurrent // Pirate Cat Radio
Welcome to Pirate Cat Radio, unregulated, commercial free and a bit freaky-deaky.
pirate cat is a great radio station i met a couple of people that have shows on there and its just a great place to hear metal, punk, and all the genres regular stations won't play.
may pirate cat live on for a long time.
www.current.tv /pods/undercurrent/PD03343   (180 words)

  
 totse.com | Pirate TV in eastern Europe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
PIRATE TV To Americans, pirate TV means the guy whose face appeared illegally on a
Pirates here are often dedicated idealists broadcasting a message not to the
TV van, designed to transmit signals from soccer matches and the like, was
www.totse.com /en/media/cable_and_satellite_television_hacks/kanalx.html   (2263 words)

  
 Pirate Prince (1991) (TV)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
I first watched this on British TV 14 years ago, and taped it for no other reason that it may be a good film to watch again someday.
The scene is then set for a wonderful romp involving blundering French marines, a voodoo shaman, an Irish pirate, and a bizarre Mardi Gras masque ball.
As well as Thandie, Rudolph Walker put in a strong performance as Newton, and the late lamented James Hazeldine was convincing as the reluctant hero Prince.
us.imdb.com /Title?0107828   (348 words)

  
 Newsvine - Millions turn to net for pirate TV
The sooner TV networks embrace the internet age and have "on demand" viewing etc the less of a problem this pirating of shows will become.
From what I hear, most of the people who download shows are still paying for their local TV service but want to watch at a different time without the advertising.
For me, it's for advertising reasons, as I don't want my daughter being inundated with nonsense all day long...I'd be happy to pay for high quality video feeds of my favorite shows, but that simply isn't offered, or if it is, it isn't offered fast enough.
redwolf.newsvine.com /_news/2006/11/30/463731-millions-turn-to-net-for-pirate-tv   (625 words)

  
 Video Bomb - Doctor Who Pirate Incident TV News Cast   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The recorded TV news story video of the pirate who took over a Dr. Who episode on TV.
When you click the link, Video Bomb will look for a video file on the page that you are viewing and fill in the URL and title fields on the submit form.
If you like a video, click the star-- the video will be added to your favorites list, and the videos with the most stars move up to the front page.
www.videobomb.com /posts/show/4539   (265 words)

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