Police raid in cyprus re dreamboxes

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In todays local paper...
POLICE IN Limassol yesterday uncovered a huge network of hijacked satellite broadcasting in the city, implicating hundreds of houses.

The head of the police unit dealing with intellectual property theft, Nicos Chrysostomou, said, acting on information, the unit investigated two shops in Limassol yesterday afternoon, leading to the confiscation of 19 central servers, 34 “Dreambox” decoders, two computers and dozens of devices that copy satellite home user cards.

He claimed that the equipment was used to hijack Cypriot, Greek and foreign satellite channels, and then pass it on to non-subscribers, who bought fake satellite cards for half the price of the originals.

Police estimate that around 1,900 non-subscribers are using the equipment to view satellite channels illegally. Investigators hope to secure the exact number and details of the non-subscribers, according to police.
 

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Great work by the Cypriot police. Well done. :)
Hope that other countries, especially in the Middle East would follow their example.
 

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I guess there is no violent crimes in cyprus, thats why the police can
afford to protect the big sat companys.
regards.
 

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I don't know,half the customers were probably in the police force anyway. Every other person I met had a dreambox and the other half were supplying
 

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Regarding mid-east, laws are different...

For example, in our country, the broadcaster needs to have license for broadcasting, which costs about $2 million/yr. Otherwise, card sharing, card clone and so on for that broadcaster are not illegal. You may see here biggest satellite shops selling pirate cards for NTV+ and so on.
 
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