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People in Ashgabat would buy one simple satellite tuner from me and connect it to their TV. I could pay the data costs only once for my usage and push whatever files I wanted to all of my customers via satellite!ДЇorget the device for вЂњfishersвЂќ - I could build Netflix for places without an Internet connection, using satellite.

#Sparkbox pcb movie#

What if I could become a legit subscriber of a satellite Internet service, pay for my own data usage, and regularly download the latest high-quality movies for myself, so that everyone in the world listening to my satellite traffic could grab a copy from the air, too? вЂњFishersвЂќ - that is, would-be customers of my easy-to-use device - would no longer have to wait until someone downloaded a movie file.

No one would buy a device that downloads junk. What if I could build a simple device that just grabbed media files from the open skies? I thought I could solve the вЂњcomplicatedвЂќ part of the problem with an easy-to-use device, but the big challenge was all the junk files. My dad was вЂњfishingвЂќ as a hobby at home, but it was not for the average person - you needed to set up a PC with a DVB-S tuner card, configure the sky-grabbing software, and keep the system running 24/7. Movie files were like heavenly gifts from the sky. Back then, the Internet was super expensive and super slow in this part of the world. While the received files were mostly junk, once in a while there were some useful bits to be caught, especially movie files. Because satellite radio signals are broadcast to one third of the Earth, anyone listening to the right frequencies could grab a copy of those files, for free. There was a small community of tech people doing satellite вЂњfishingвЂќ - they tuned their receivers to known frequencies of satellite internet providers, and intercepted all files downloaded by other users.