Comment Old news, but new to Slashdot? (Score 2) 219
Free to air statellite has been big in Europe since the 1980s, and digital (DVD-S) since the 1990s.
Hacked Linux-based receivers have pretty much dominated the European DVB-S market for the last decade, and especialy in FTA.
It's a shame that it has had little attention from Slashdot and other mainstream open source media over the years, because that has left the field free for some pretty unsavoury people in the TV encryption cracking market.
I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that cracked satellite receivers were up there with cracked routers as a major source of Linux malware.