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[Khandurian]

Ok, I can see where this is going. Steven, talk to your little puppy in private. He will tell you that if you remove the card it does not make inoperable. You can put the card back in and the box will still work. You just can't move it to another box.

This is the same thing that both satellite companies do. Once you insert the card into the box, the card becomes married to the box.

It wont be long before the <kof>leet<kof> script kiddies figure out they can do the same thing with these cable cards as they can with satellite boxes. Ooops, did I say that?

I do know, that if the box came from the factory with a bad card, it can be removed and a new one put in and the box will work again. I also know if the box died, but the card was still good, you can remove the card, send it back to SA, and they can re-program it for a new box.

However, in light of everything said, the reason it's being done this way, is so that the software doesn't "leak" out. But just like with anything else, just wait, over time, someone over at SA will get p.o.'d and quit and have the software in his brief case, and then Oops! how did that get on Emule/bittorrent?

[stevenl]

As I beleive I clarified in an early post I didnt mean to say "break" in the sense it will blow up and not work, that was a mis-wording on my part

[Khandurian]

As I beleive I clarified in an early post I didnt mean to say "break" in the sense it will blow up and not work, that was a mis-wording on my part

No worries, I probably missed it.