The satellite platform Sky Digital uses the system of conditional access Videoguard, as Sky Italy. There exists the observation of which this encriptación system is completely sure and invulnerable for the "pirates" being for the time being an impossible power visionar of illegal form the channels that Videoguard uses.

In the decade of the 90s and under the analogical system, BSkyB was using the system Videocrypt, much pirated in his moment up to such a point that went so far as to apply the second version completely incompatible with the first one and much surer. The company NDS Group, provider of solutions for digital payment television, is the person in charge of the system Videoguard.

At present BSkyB is the payment television leader in Europe with 8.400.000 subscribers to date of December 31, 2006 and with an offer that overcomes the half thousand of channels.


France, a model to be continued

For his part, the French platform CanalSat (earlier CanalSatellite Numerique) uses two systems of encriptación, the Mediaguard and the Viaccess. CanalSat, before his merger with another French platform TPS, had at the end of 2006 of approximately 8 million subscribers, occupying the second place in the European ránking.

Until a few years ago, CanalSat could be visionada of fraudulent form but his persons in charge decided to apply changes in the systems of conditional access. This way they went on from the Mediaguard (Dry season) to the Mediaguard 2, while the Viaccess codification was modified by a system baptized like ThalesCrypt. Both actuacione have reinforced of sure form the CanalSat encriptación.

Also in Italy, Sky, the platform of Rupert Murdoch, proceeded to beginnings of 2005 after the merger of Stream and Telepiú, to the migration of the system Mediaguard, much piratedao up to the date. Sky Italy keeps on using the technology NDS for encriptar his channels.

Coincidence or nó, the true thing is that the digital payment platforms with major number of channels and subscribers are those who keep his codifications invulnerable of sure form.


(SatCesc, 23/02/07)