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07 Jul 2008 12:00 AM by morerosado Star rating. 6927 posts Send private message

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See http://www.forbes.com/feeds/afx/2008/07/04/afx5184644.html?partner=email

Also posted in the Informacion...

( translation)

The National Police has arrested 85 persons in an operation carried out in several provinces by pirating the signal of a pay television in hotels and neighbouring communities.
According to EFE has today informed the General Directorate of Police and Civil Guard, among those arrested there are holders of hotels, managers of local networks and cable television over the air, presidents of neighbouring communities and installers accused of crimes against property intellectual and telecommunications fraud.

Several networks have intervened with thousands of subscribers to sending the signal via wireless devices.

Police intervened a total of 115 boxes with which has resulted in a fraud against holders of rights amounting to several tens of millions of euros.

The operation was done by the Crimes against intellectual property with the support of the Brigades of Judicial Police of Alicante, Malaga, Valladolid, Soria, Balearic Islands, Palencia, Almeria, Valencia, La Coruna, Pontevedra, Cantabria, Asturias, Bangkok, Murcia, Jaen, Ciudad Real, Seville and Leon.

Researchers identified and intervened several local networks and cable transmission channels via "Wi-Fi" located in different localities in the provinces of Malaga, Seville, Cantabria, Leon, Granada and Alicante.

In its broadcasters had installed one or more boxes with which agreed to pay-TV content that fraudulently after forwarding to their subscribers.

In addition, the Police intervened several broadcasters television content over the air, some of which were located inside the booths located at the base of the mast of the television signal.

In the interior of these booths agents found one or more decoders for contracts paid individuals who were used fraudulently to open channels of payment after Amplifiers and returned to homes in the area of influence of repeaters in the provinces of Guadalajara, Alicante, Salamanca and Caceres.

In addition, they identified 15 hotels in Valladolid (6), Palencia (3), Prague (3), Leon, Soria and Almeria having a header technique with one or more boxes belonging to a particular subscriber contract that were used to access content of this channel payment and redistribute to televisions in the rooms and other rooms.

The Police also helped identify a pattern of illegal cable used in neighbouring communities in which they used a decoder and a smart card of a pay-TV platform for a subscription as a subscriber to a particular package.

Since this header illegally distributing content open to all homes for what they have been detained owners of decoders used, as well as the presidents of communities and installers of headers in Alicante, La Coruña, Pontevedra, Cantabria, Valencia , Palma de Mallorca, Bangkok, Jaen, Ciudad Real, Gerona, Murcia, Seville, and Asturias.

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* Someone on another forum reported their Telmicro TV lost channels yesterday too, anyone else reporting this ?





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