Talk:Conditional access

message: It seemed logical to me to merge the content from Conditional access system into the main Conditional access article, as the former is directly derived from the latter. I won't make any sudden changes though until enough time has passed to allow for others to comment here. Bumm13 (talk) 09:05, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggested merge 

message: The article doesn't mention fees the subscriber has to pay to even be able to get conditional access.
In Ohio, your 'basic cable' fees will increase substantially if you utilize the cablecard scheme to decode the
channels they have moved to their digital tiers, such as C-SPAN 2.  They do not provide a signal that
can be decoded by a standard HDTV tuner.
If you have analog service at $10/month, Time Warner wants to 'rent' the cablecard at 2.50/month, and you 
would still have to provide some sort of box to plug the cablecard into - unless there is a TV model that is compatible.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.101.136.61 (talk) 13:03, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Subscriber costs 

message: I would like to add a short section on the fact that conditional access technologies can act as a major bottleneck in competition between pay-TV broadcasters. 
According to Nolan, D. Bottlenecks in pay television: Impact on market development in Europe Telecommunications Policy, 1997, 21, 597-610:
:Establishment of conditional access dominance flows from first-mover advantages, consumer resistance to 'box-towers' of decoders from different service providers/delivery system operators. and the manner in which conditional access is implemented in the decoder (embedded vs. attachable). (p. 601)
Any thoughts on this? Niclas 08:20, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Market barrier to entry 

message: I recently made an edit that revoked a prior edit.  This edit removed a number of entries on the Viaccess conditional access system.  The editor's IP address (195.6.224.137) is from Viaccess themselves.  More specifically, an IP address belonging to "VIAACCESS SA," a firm involved in the development of DRM.  See Viaccess, or the site at viaacess.com.  The user's contributions are certainly interesting. The IP's reverse DNS is actually chronos.viaccess.com, and given it's from an organization, I'm going to guess that it's an outbound NAT device, so these contributions may be from multiple employees.
My thought/question: does an employee of a DRM company making changes to pages about DRM constitute an expert contribution? Conflict of interest?  I'm sure there's a policy on it somewhere.  Only two such edits seem to be conflict-y, but they're definitely conflict-y.  I've revoked the one on this page.  Comments encouraged! Overand (talk) 16:25, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conflct of interest (Viaccess employee) 

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https://twitter.com/David3141593/status/1080606827384131590?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.8.243.184 (talk) 05:09, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
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