I think I have spent way too much time and money already, my wife will not be happy with me haha. As you can see form my profile I have been on here since 2008, but just kept quite. I started spending back in the days when Sky One was FTA on 19.2e and D/D2-MAC was the encryption getting broken with 'wafer' cards (my very first buy was a Rediffusion, dont think they are around anymore)! Just been out of the game since 2014 due to health issues so just trying to get back up to speed and help with what i can in the process :thum:
Hey,is a my opinion, but historically,no commercial venture lasted or helped the freeware community like the approach of uninterested people that willingly supplied the right information to make things work,many university professors,high level chemists,some people with access to sophisticated advanced grade tools helped over time to make a long lasting situation for freeware developers,since the mid 90's.
That's the real help,and on top of this, commercial ventures starting to flourish.
But they do not help,they just develop something and run it to the ground,and when no more profit there is abandonment.
Millions of boxes sold and thrown away.
Is going to happen to this chinese boxes too,and their servers.
Just imagine,one guy posted here a fast approach to bruteforce keys,gave the way to simple people to get keys on their own,without this help,no server could have been possible,but clearly they exploited the situation,now you want to depend on them for finding your keys,kind of going backwards.
Same with emulation,oscam code is plastered all over the receivers firmware,exploiting freeware.
Again,my view,I tend to chose freeware and the people that support it,that's all.