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Re:Microsoft furious at $2,000 bounty for open source Kinect... by tptacek on Friday November 05, 2010 @08:00PM (#1875436)
I don't follow. People used to hack DirecTV machines to receive the service for free. DirecTV detected that, and shut all those people down. How much does it cost today to obtain a device that gets free pay-per-view?
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Re:Microsoft furious at $2,000 bounty for open source Kinect... by pyre on Saturday November 06, 2010 @01:00AM (#1876118)
There are still people that do it, so far as I understand, but it is a dedicated bunch and takes enough time that it's not something that will easily be in the hands of people that don't have intimate knowledge of the systems.
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Re:Microsoft furious at $2,000 bounty for open source Kinect... by tptacek on Saturday November 06, 2010 @01:23AM (#1876194)
It used to cost $150? to get unlimited free pay-per-view. I know; I had a hacked card (we paid for DTV, but I liked being able to record The Simpsons from every local network carried on DTV, back when The Simpsons was actually decent).

What does it cost now?

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