c/p from iks2 website...

In 2008 and 2009, Nagravision 3 changed the North American FTA Satellite testing community forever and resulted in the re-emergence of Internet Key Sharing (IKS). The market has seen a number of brands who came out with files and servers to support a Public IKS solution. Unfortunately, many other brands either opted to wait endlessly for a Nagravision 3 fix or released only tools you could use to setup your box to work with private solutions from shady dealers, many of whom were easily infiltrated and busted by investigative teams working on behalf of the providers.

In the time since IKS became a popular solution for restoring the ability to view Nagravision 3 encrypted content we have seen major players in Public IKS shut down operations due to legal issues between manufacturers, vendors, distributors and the satellite providers through the courts. A brand can simply not have any direct or indirect ties to the producers of codes and services to support IKS and all such solutions are therefore subject to risk.

IKS 2 was designed by members and owners of FTA satellite receivers to change the playing field for the benefit of the equipment owners, not the brands or coding groups. To give you a working option for boxes that are no longer supported because of simple greed in forcing you to buy new receivers or dongles just so you could watch TV again. To make matters worse IKS has resulted in untimely server outages and unpleasant viewing. IKS2 is here to change that.

IKS 2 is an improvement to the existing methods of sharing codewords to your receivers. First and foremost, its not tied into one single brand. Its only limited by the ability of talented coding teams to convert existing IKS code to the new platform. As a universal solution for IKS2 we actually hope some third party coding teams that have been working on particular brands see the light and release compatible files for these additional receivers.

All IKS 2 servers will be offshore. Not only will they be outside of the jurisdiction of law enforcement agencies that do little but work to secure the monopolies of wealthy satellite service operators that sell you TV services that should be free, the number of IKS 2 relays will be so plentiful and the seeds so diverse and protected, when any part of the IKS 2 system is taken down for maintenance, the rest is destined to stay in tact, with little to no downtime of freezing for end users.

What is the goal of the IKS 2 project? Universal IKS with a compatible protocol for use by all capable satellite receivers complete with the required redundancy and service capacity to last thru any attempts to thwart the successful delivery of codewords to your receiver. The end game is to stabalize a solution that has no business in the hands of groups with little to no server or networking experience. IKS 2 will be in the hands of the vast Internet connected community of equipment owners and managed by experts in the field of network communications and server management.

IKS 2 is expected to be available for many models of FTA receivers in the Spring of 2010.

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ok. there is a new web browser site called iks2. we shall see what it has to offer.pay for fee ? service providers ?servers supplying steams to fta receivers ? when this spring ? what's available as a channel lists ? rumor with a web site. I will keep a watch and update.

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TIme will tell of course but to actually get the coders together and to develop a universal code? I find that to be highly improbable. I'm hoping to be wrong but do believe that this one will stay in the rumour section for a long time to come. I also wonder how will this be funded. Right now if I understand correctly the companies that make the receivers fund the coders so that people buy their receivers. Now if it doesn't matter what receiver you buy with this iks 2 system then why would companies fund the coders if they don't get a direct benefit from it? This iks 2 system would have to be paid for by subscribers and how many people would pay a subscription when they don't pay a subscription fee to satellite providers? I don't know if this is accurate or not but have faith that if I'm wrong I will be corrected fast enough.

I heard it through the grapevine that IKS2 will be free depending on what your rank or award ribbon is on a certain forum. Those who want to skip in front of the line can get an award ribbon by donating as little as $5

Looks like just another .org site and it's registered in USA i just looked it up.All i see is bunch of sponsored ads by google and they are trying to direct traffic to their site and make a few bucks with google ads.

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I have to agree with FTA Pro. It sounds like a bit of a scam going on. Go to the head of the line for 5 bucks? And what will 5 bucks buy? Sure isn't enough to pay for a decoder unless u have a hell of alot of people paying 5 bucks each. And what is stopping someone from taking the code they get from these hackers and giving it away to their friends and family or just giving it away on the net? Sorry one plus one is definately not adding up to two just yet.

The .orgs as they have been called are very good at marketing all their portal sites because they are usually in the top 3 when you look any of the solutions up on google, so apparently they are doing something right. A site making money from google ads is not a bad thing if it keeps the lights on, and well whats the point of running a site if it doesnt generate enough traffic and revenue to make some bread for the store?

They host some of the web pages in the US but they use private domain registration services to protect their identity. They are not the only sites that do this. As far as IKS2 being a scam you could say the same about IKS itself or any of the private card sharing solutions out there. If it works, great. If it doesn't people will quickly learn that I am sure.

They dont sell boxes or dongles, they want to supprt them better than they are supported now and in some cases would be the only way to get some boxes back up and running. They want to save people money so they don't have to go out and buy the latest boxes that will probably go down and cause the whole viscious cycle to repeat itself.

Sure it has to be paid for, but what is a safe way to do it? Some would argue buying a box or dongle is just as unsafe as paying for a service like private card sharing or IKS2. Hell buying football cards in the Hu days along with unloopers was unsafe too. I think the key is that some will take the risks and some won't. It would be nice if they could come up with a way to pay for it without asking people to pay but I doubt that will happen. Maybe they will come up with a safe way for people to pay to play?

That's true nothing wrong with making a few bucks with google adsense but the site at the moment looks like advertising site and nothing more. If in fact they do come up with new solution, great one more option for fta testers to consider.

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