IKS ECM Ifo
Last Thursday the providers finally triggered their latest ECM to take down IKS. We all thought they would come up with something at some point so here it is I heard that few months ago they tested it on some of their European markets and it is now fully operational at DN and Bell. (See Nagra IKS protection patent <http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2 FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=994485.AP N.&OS=APN/994485&RS=APN/994485> ).

Let me give you an idea on how it works First that new ECM has been forced in all cards and continuously counts all channel changes. From now on, all DN/Bell cards will increment a counter every time you change the channel. If you stay on the same channel then youre good but if you keep sending requests for new channels (like an IKS server does when it share his card to server multiple channels) then your counter will raise to the ceiling.



Remember some FTAs went down a few weeks ago. The providers were forcing everyone to stream their card and take the update. No IKS server was working until they streamed cards again. Remember MECM updates for N2, same thing? They had no choice but to take the EMMs to restore video. Then the providers enabled the watchdog on Thursday



I dont know about you but I think this one is going to be tuff to work around. Our only chance is for the IKS servers to put one card behind every channel they serve.

Hopefully by sharing this information, we can provide a united front to keep the exchange of information FREE and for public consumption as it should be.

-Team IKS