Nismo400R said:
Just found this out on the shack a minute ago. sounds quite bad, toecutter says people are bein arrested and everythin, hope everything turns out ok for the den and dudez...
Yep, same as in Malta.
The following is from
http://www.maltamedia.com/news/2004/ln/article_4404.shtml
Informatics pirates arrested following EU-Maltese Police collaboration
By Ruth Davies
Dec 8, 2004, 10:34 CET
In coordinated work between the Maltese, Italian, Spanish and Polish police, the Police Squad against Economic Crimes and the Cyber Crime Unit managed to seize material related to the copying of satellite dish cards and code hacking, which breeches the right of the author is used without consent. Two men were arrested after police discovered they were involved in the breeching the system of $ky’s satellite channels codes.
A group of informatics pirates managed to breech the system of $ky’s satellite codes channel and distributed them through an internet site. Software and apparatus which allows the viewing of cryptic transmissions was also handed out.
Police Squad against economic crimes had for a long while been collaborating with foreign police and Anal Plus officials in France in order to raid the suspect locations. Following raids carried out in Wied il-Ghajn, St. Julian’s and San Gwann two men were arrested. A 37-year-old man from Fgura and a 47-year-old man from St. Julian’s are helping police in further investigations and are expected to be arraigned in court in the upcoming days.
A number of satellite decoders, cards and computers elevated during the raid. Additionally the police seized other objects related with satellite card modification taking place through internet sites used by various individuals around Europe.
The two arrested men are expected to be arraigned in court in the upcoming days.
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