This is around circa 2000-2002, and Brian Olson may have been the host of the Dish Answer Channel on channel 100 during that timeframe, before early 2002 when the Answer Channel moved to channel 101 and became the Remote Control Help channel.
"If you can see this channel, and see me, you need to know that you are breaking the law" Damn, am I really not allowed to see this man? Guess I'm going to prison for watching this video.
WELL I MEAN THIS IS ONE OF THE BETTER ONES. i got in jail for 6 months after buying a pirated movie. I didn’t get a chance to turn it back. Automatic legal action was taken
I remember this jerk off and the empty threat of going after people. Shortly after this is when Dish and Direct started driving around and looking for dishes and then comparing it to their customer lists to figure out if someone was a pirate.
DirecTV's satellites were more secure and harder to encrypt than Dish Network's satellites. Because of this, DirecTV didn't even have a channel like this.
DirecTV has always had a different approach, they just ECM any pirate smart cards they find and keep on top of their security a lot better. Meanwhile, Dish has to do this shit because the Nagravision encryption they use is notoriously weak, so they just send out lots of legal threats and use scare tactics to make up for it.
I heard if you watch this and don't call the number it kicks into the Dish Anti-Piracy Self Reporter. Your Dish equipment turns into a phone line somehow and has you call 911 on yourself. Oh well, probably just hearsay.
What I heard is that your set-top box secretly has a nuclear warhead inside just in case you decide to try anything funny. You either call the number or kiss your ass goodbye because it's about to be vaporized.
Not possible. Satellite descramblers are recieve only. They don't phone home even if you are a subscriber is the satellite broadcasts your satellite card ID for the channels you are authorized for. If the ID is not in the broadcast your box wont descramble the channels. These anti piracy channels were only visible to those with hacked descramblers, because they would descramble everything they could find but these channels were invisible to legitimate customerrs
@@brianbenfield3270 haha me too, honestly I was vaguely familiar with the concept of the pirate Satellite business but didn't know anything beyond it existing.
they likely did, they had full control over the firmware on their own boxes and from what I hear blacklisted the channel this video aired on for legitimate subscribers (i think it might have been card shenanigans? i'm not sure)
@@VibbyABibby i know they were able to blacklist the channel for active subscribers, they were able to get this to only go to stolen boxes, but they could not individually determine which boxes were using illegitimate cards. Fuck em.
I wonder how this worked? Maybe legitimate setups lock out the channel so you never see it, as a regular customer. But someone pirating it would get "all" the channels, including the warning presented here?
@@Phoenix_Films You wouldn't. Under this (very) hypothetical scenario that would be an edge case. I'd wager someone just in it for a single channel knows full well their actions are considered illegal and the secret shame channel would be a useless scarecrow even if they did hit upon it. ;)
Basically, it happened because pirate equipment indiscriminately decrypts everything it picks up, meanwhile legitimate subscribers wouldn't see it because it wasn't in any of the subscription packages. Technically speaking, legit equipment could pick it up, but since that also gets more specific channel data for the guide listings, they probably also didn't include it in said data so that it wouldn't appear on a normal box. But hey, that's just a theory...a DISH theory.
The idea behind this is really simple. Dish Network hosts this channel, encrypted using Nagravision 1. They don't "allow" anyone to watch this channel, but the Nagravision bypass decrypts all of the channels, even if not all of them can be accessed by a legitimate Dish customer. That's why Pirate TV was available only for pirates (and of course internally for Dish Network employees)
I worked for dish in 2009 they were still broadcasting a variation of this video. We were never trained on it until I was promoted a couple years later. I seen this on a legit set top box I brought into the customers home from the van and it was running wide open with all channels. I called our tech line and gave them the R00/S00 numbers and their equipment verification team took over the call, called my FSM and everyone only to find out a prototype somehow got slipped into the refurb process and never got cleared out properly. Customer almost canceled because they saw this and were hella offended and thought I was a pirate installer or some shit.
I remember what this was on the program guide "Stop stealing! Illegal device." The first time you encounter this, All the 'tester provider' had to do was explain this to the user that they can not in fact trace them without the phone line. This would a very different situation for the sellers if dish offered literally anything else to the user other than "Give us money or go to federal PMITA prison" I mean, I know people so cheap, they would have flipped for a 20$ gift card of 3 months of free legal service.
Yeah, and this wasn't as effective as one might think since the people selling the pirate boxes/cards could very easily explain that literally the only way they could actually find you is if you called the number, but from everything I've heard they weren't bullshitting about not pressing charges if the people calling became customers. But you could also avoid having to do that at all by just not calling and in fact continuing to use the box until they change the encryption because it's a mostly empty threat. Now, if you were using various online piracy methods, on the other hand, that's pretty traceable and a lot of people have gotten legal threats from Nagrastar (basically the company Dish tells to metaphorically break your legs if you get caught pirating) due to that.
