End of Canal + Maghreb because of piracy

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End Piracy of Canal + France in the Maghreb
May 30, 2011

Canal + France can no longer be viewed as illegal in North Africa after the proliferation of pirate smart cards that had flooded the Algerian market at a price of just 2500 AD, about 25 euros.

This plastic card also allowed access to the signal of multi-channel platform CanalSat France on Astra (19.2 ° East), including movie channels and Ciné Cinéma.

The reason for leaving no "service" to these illegal access cards has been the decision of the Director of Groupe Canal + has closed the offering of Canal + Maghreb, produced by its subsidiary Canal + Overseas.

The package was launched in early 2009 via satellite Badr 6 (26 ° East) Arabsat. In the beginning consisted of over 25 television channels.

French pay-TV launched this project in the northern part of Africa consider that in the target countries, some 10 million households, were prepared to receive several of its television channels.

The offer consisted of Canal + Essentiel option with the presence of Canal + France but without the X programming that is broadcast to the Gallic country and not without sports broadcasts since Al Jazeera already has the television rights for the Maghreb.

Also in the same option is integrated among other Canal + Family, Canal + Cinema, Cinema Film Stars, Film Cinema Frisson Horizons (without programming X), LCI, France 2, France 3 and France 5.

All these channels were encoded under the conditional access system Viaccess 3.0.

Canal + has decided to put an end to the adventure undertaken just over a couple of years and move far end of its channels for the Maghreb half a year earlier than previously announced. Have taken advantage of the transmission of the Champions League final between FC Barcelona and Manchester United, long awaited in the Maghreb countries, to make it out of play the unlawful practice of piracy.
 

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[The distribution of Canal + bouquet on Arabsat ends on January 31, 2012]


The Canal + Maghreb stopped since yesterday, the dissemination of its 26 channels on the satellite Arabsat Badr4. The satellite package signing and irreversible announced his departure from the March of last year. "The distribution of Canal + satellite ends January 31, 2012. We appreciate having you as our customers, "
 

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Piracy forces Canal+ Maghreb to stop

Piracy forces Canal+ Maghreb to stop
11.16 Europe/London, February 2, 2012 By Robert Briel

Canal+ Maghreb has stopped broadcasting on the Arabsat satellite claiming piracy as the reason.

About a year ago, Canal+ CEO Bertrand Meheut said the Canal+ Maghreb service would cease operations because of widespread piracy in the target markets Algeria and Morocco.

Canal+ made the decision to stop marketing its p[=repaid cards in the two countries, but would honour all cards out in the market. On January 31 the validity of all these card expired, so Canal+ could switch off all broadcasts from Arabsat.

Canal+ Maghreb began broadcasting in February 2009. The offer consisted of 25 channels using Viaccess encryption.

“We decided to postpone our commercial investments as long as the control of piracy will not bear fruit”, said Meheut, when presenting the annual results of Vivendi in Paris on March 1, 2011.
 
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