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-http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2198204/Satellite-TV-thief-sold-illegal-subscriptions-Sky-Sports-channels-worth-1m-transmitted-huge-dish-garden.html

This is why I hate journalists. They simply don't have a clue.

"A 'backdoor businessman' sold dodgy TV subscriptions worth £1million pounds and broadcast the signal from a massive dish in his back garden, a court heard today.

Steven Kaye, 37, claimed to be running a global network with bases around the world but was actually running an illegal operation from a spare room at his £330,000 home

He transmitted channels such as Sky Sports and Sky Movies around the UK using a trampoline-sized dish that was balanced on his garden shed in Chandler’s Ford, Hants."

Clearly the article speaks about card sharing... the fact that he has a "trampoline sized dish" has really nothing to do with it.

Idiots.
 

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Typical Mail story. Always so careful to look up house evaluations, other facts go by the wayside.
 

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Read part of that article and couldn't believe the stupidity.
He was probably using the large dish to get Saturday 3PM EPL games, and other packages, as part of the services offered, it also doesn't surprise me that many of his customers didn't know how to work a Linux based receiver, even if they were cheap clones.
All these people care about is free Sky, a most vastly over rated, and over priced, provider, that seems to care more about advertisements than programming, or is my bias showing:)
 

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lol, I was just about to post a thread on this ludicrous article. In all fairness it was written by a woman, so it's somewhat excusable, but even so.

The very idea that he could broadcast channels from his dish would have to be a first in the amateur sat world though, with all those subs he could probably about afford space on a single transponder. :)
 

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There's a reason I refer to that publication "The Daily Fail", cos every day they publish stories that contain 100% made up rubbish... :-rofl2
 

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I see they've now upped the value of his house to £400,000.

Complaints from his neighbours for down-valuing their properties?
 

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2cvbloke said:
There's a reason I refer to that publication "The Daily Fail", cos every day they publish stories that contain 100% made up rubbish... :-rofl2

Think you'll find that whichever paper you read, if you check out articles on which you have any sort of specialist knowledge, or involve you on a personal level, most of what they write is at best inaccurate.
 

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Llew said:
Complaints from his neighbours for down-valuing their properties?

Probably peeved they no longer have cheap subscription telly, and they've all been irradiated by that nasty neighbour with his broadcasting dish for months.
 

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To be fair, the information that came from the courts wasn't exactly clear, as the Southern Daily Echo quotes the prosecutor:

"By purchasing a legitimate viewing card from each of the main service providers and using a computer, the pair sold set-top boxes that could decode a signal transmitted from the server through a normal satellite dish, prosecutor James Kellam said."

_http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/9908811.Pair_ran___1m_TV_scam_from_spare_room/

If this is a case of card sharing I don't think they would want to go into too much detail especially if sky or others were involved with the investigation.
 

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Well, just had a quick look on ebay, four people offering satellite boxes with "a free gift". I go into so many bars and homes where people are using these boxes. I wonder what Sky is doing, as surely it can´t be difficult to prosecute these people. I always advise people not to buy these boxes as if the provider gets raided the police will have the users i.p. address and could come after them. I was asked the other day the likely outcome of being caught and I said probably a fine, But looking at what this guy got for defrauding up to 1 million pounds it would appear that end users have nothing to worry about!
 
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