Streaming to iPad outside of home network

I don't think I am alone when I say that I am QUITE sick of your "holier than thou" attitude, dcd.

If you don't have anything to contribute to the discussion don't say anything at all. I really don't appreciate you trying to make me out to be a pirate when all I want to do is be able to use a service I pay forwithout being restricted to a 30 foot radius around my house.

I'm going to apologize for not being 100% open about this and no I wont answer any private questions but it is still possible to do this. You just need to put some thought in to it and understand Unix(Which is what the iPad runs on..Not Linux). I wont be specific for the same reason that VPN doesn't work out of the box anymore, someone was too specific. I actually cannot say for sure that it ever did. I just started doing this and it already did not work by then. I'm a network and software engineer. Any application "looking" for the type of network it is connected to can be "fed" incorrect information and made to think otherwise. You see each application runs on top of what is known as an OSI model. Its a concept of independent logical layering and separation by design. The application runs on the top of the seven layers. Its is by design isolated from the lower layers such as link, physical, presentation, etc. Just think about the ways an application can check on its supporting layers. What information would it be looking for and where? Generally engineers start at layer one and works his/her way up till they find what they need. Then spoof/fake/modify that information. Again...sorry for being so vague. Clearly the DTV guy in this forum wont figure this out but it would seem that some in here would be able to decipher my meaning and for those I hope this helps you. Also...btw...it also doesn't necessarily have to run on an iPad although I have it running there also. Its kinda a pain because I still have to apply the hack occasionally for some reason. Its Unix but its also not and it does some weird stuff that's not normal behavior for Unix. Lol...this reminds me of the days of the CMD82 and the HU card...superseded (we believe) by the encrypted CMD90 if I remember correctly. CMD54 was the call to generate decryption keys for vid, trap 5 for ROM driven rights to the card(Which actually contained a bug that allowed access in to the card!), etc, etc etc. Not that I would ever consider modifying a CAM, CAM ID, RID, Receiver or an Access Card. 😉

I don't know if this is insight or not, but the limitations built into the app probably have more to do with telecommunication law and content being rebroadcast over non-private infrastructure. Clearly it would be very simple for DTV to provide a feature to stream through VPN or through broadband almost exactly as it provides streaming in a home network and that would be outstanding. Instead, we have DirecTV Everywhere and specific rights management for individual networks.

For anyone else reading this who becomes enraged over the issue, I would seriously question the idea that there's some nefarious plan behind this. DirecTV's bottom line is increasing subscriber base and innovating value mutlipliers for extremelyexpensive content, very simple... not devising new and exciting ways of screwing people.