[linux-dvb] Re: CAM's and legal stuff

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Lauri Tischler wrote:
> 
> After snooping around in mailarchives, couple of questions popped up.
> Has anybody tryed Magic Module CAM ?
> Why is SoftCAM considered illegal? As long as official smartcard is used
> to feed the correct keys to WhatEverCAM it should be legal.
> Of cource I can be terribilly wrong, as usual :)

AFAIK SoftCAM _can_ be used with an official smart card, but you can also
run it without one - and that's where it becomes illegal.

If the driver would have better CAM support, there would probably be no
need for a SoftCAM...

Klaus
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