I have kept out of the digidude / a####t war as its not my business but I feel the need to answer here.
It sometimes seems people believe sat hacking began when modern technomates had patches available, or perhaps believe that hacking started when Darkman first put his name to a patch, or maybe all started when a####t opened......
Technomate are just an arm in the sat business, Darkman is just an arm in the business. A####t was opened after technomate made deals with darkman, after deals were made with digitalb too, after Darkman already had his contacts and after being already involved in an industry thats been around for decades. Anyone who thinks darkman woke up one morning and thought "I'll hack satellite today; open a sat supplies business; phone technomate to be a main distributor; order several hundred thousand digitalb cards; start a forum; run the world solely on my own without friends; no-one has thought of all this before....." is seriously not in reality.
Technomate weren't clever by using a 'front' as this is just normal part of business. They have to distance themselves from hacking, same way dream multimedia have to. Technomate themselves are just a 'front' anyway for the manufacturing plant, inventor & developer, they are in simple just western-world distributors of a product.
I dont agree there is deception, apart from maybe Darkman saying "he will write a new firmware fix" etc. In some ways I dont agree Darkman is wrong to claim credit for what he does do, which is bring lots of aspects together for the benefit of us ~the end users. Digidude has his reasons for war with a####t and for making it publically clear Darkman does not write patches, but for many people this is nothing new within this industry. My opinion is that its not DigitalWorldz vs a####t, I dont want to be part of the ongoing feud and dont want to be part of any bad feeling here, but I would like people to see a bigger picture. See it as deception or not but in reality all businesses run with publically kept secrets. :Cheers: