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10-03-2011, 00:08
*Confirmed the end of Canal + Maghreb because of piracy The package will still be offered on the satellite Badr 5 (26 ° East) to customers who purchased a smart card pre-payment of the Viaccess encryption As already proposed a few days ago , the management of Groupe Canal + has confirmed the closing of the offer of Canal + Maghreb, produced by its subsidiary Canal + Overseas, following the dismal economic performance due in part to the effects of piracy. The package was launched in February 2009 via satellite Badr 5 (26 ° East) Arabsat. In the beginning consisted of over 25 television channels. French pay-TV launched this project in the northern part of Africa consider that in the target countries, some 10 million households, were prepared to receive several of its television channels. The offer consisted of Canal + Essentiel option with the presence of Canal + France but without the X programming that is broadcast to the Gallic country and not without sports broadcasts since Al Jazeera already has the television rights for the Maghreb. All these channels were encoded under the conditional access system Viaccess 3.0.*