> Piracy became rampant. Asking for "TBA 970" delay chips in electronic stores prompted employees to offer the full list required to build a "decodeur pirate". The encryption system was updated to Nagravision encryption in 1992 and Discret 11 was retired by 1995.

We had one in the house. Very cheap and easy to get from north africa. Upgraded encryption was quickly matched with upgraded piracy. Then canalsat came along and you needed a memory card to keep your pirating hardware up to date, but it was still ok.

Now I don't watch TV, and DRM in browser doesn't seem to have been broken the same way.

But it doesn't matter because things like stremio give you the catalogs of all streaming services for free.

Seems like piracy never dies.