Yup! Well you used to be able to, not sure as aint touched sat for years. I am sure you still can if you know where to look.
I never used to pay for any Sky or anything and I used to watch everything for free using cards that were "home-made"! Programable chips on the card with a key pad that was updateable as they caught on to the codes! Or you could find the feeds that Sky use from say a football ground to their HQ, you could actually see the footage before Sky did! Or D2-MAC which was Digital format long before Sky got on the bandwagon and the picture quality was awesome! Canal Plus was a film channel that put films out in digital before Sky had the rights to it on analogue. The card you got was a hack to get this channel and others for free.
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