Tele Addict

Links in Spanish

http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/4925...s/piratear/tv/

http://www.euroweeklynews.com/200908...n-de-pago.html

jay01

Sorry to be a pain, but my grasp of spanish is basic at the moment, can someone possibly translate what the article is saying, as some of it I understand and others are way over my head.

The Guy

"google" translation from another newspaper....with the same story....and according to some reports a few more were "visited" today....just like last year- in the middle of summer....!!



Tuesday, 04 August 2009 13:10 am / Europa Press /
Sixty arrested for hacking into the signal channel digital pay TV.
The National Police have arrested 60 people in connection with an investigation against the piracy of pay-TV channels.. Among those arrested include hotel managers and presidents of neighboring communities that have defrauded a total of several million euros. Have been discovered several networks of cable located in Tenerife, Malaga, Cadiz, Cordoba and Granada, that 'teledistribuían' specific channels and content to their subscribers

For the first time in Europe has been the arrest of two managers of a web portal where doing 'uploading', term used to describe the rise of content from the Net by deceit.

In particular, detainees offered through the Internet television signal from a digital platform for payment and other Arabic Spanish to redeploy later via 'streaming' (re) using American Web sites, the police reported.

From a roof more than 1,000 customers

Since it was' teledistribuían 'housing 1274 wrongfully content delivered by two pay channels. . This process is carried out through a cable network provided by terraces and walls of various buildings of that neighborhood.. The perpetrators were two merchants in the area, who were in charge of collecting a monthly fee, door to door, the inhabitants of different houses to provide such services.

. Furthermore, as a result of this investigation were discovered several networks of cable located in Tenerife, Malaga, Cadiz, Cordoba and Granada, that 'teledistribuían' specific channels and content to its subscribers, without the required authorizations. Tenerife in the broadcast network content of channels to pay foreigners more than 3,000 subscribers, who paid a high monthly fee.

British citizens involved in the fraud

. Captures the network to users who want access to content delivered by a British pay-channel, which used ads in local media, promotional websites and even word of mouth. . To perform fraud illegal service providers need the cooperation of other people living in the United Kingdom.

Once you have grasped the customer came to formalize a contract with such a platform falsifying data set, thus incurring in a crime of falsification of documents. As a result, they have seized tens of thousands of fraudulent contracts, plus the relevant delivery notes and invoices, certifying the above activity.
Action has been operated on decoders, smart cards 1321-card, 92 units modulators, amplifiers, computers, telephones and other apparatus necessary for the commission of the crime and numerous documents of the illegal activity.

jay01

Many thanks for that, but by the sounds of it, it does not involve things like sky or is it more like having a chipped cable box and not paying for the channels. Unfortunately I am not tech minded and need it in vegatable terms, lol

The Guy

It reports, amongst other thing, that people were rebroadcasting PAY TV channels without the permission - this could be Sky, or D+, or many others.

The system these places use involve a stack of digiboxes in a cupboard all tuned into a specific channel (box 1 bbc1, box 2 sky one, box 3 sky sports etc) and the output from these digiboxes are piped around the "hotel" or "community" network...meaning that only these boxes need a pay tv viewing card, and that each individual house does not need a viewing card or pay the TV companies doirectly....they just pay the "hotel" or "community"

Tele Addict

Or in previous cases piped around the Costa Blanca by rebroadcasting companies...

HBG

If you can't afford a giant satellite dish, or don't have space for it on your property, and your missus misses Eastenders and Corrie, you have to go to an illegal re-broadcaster. It will cost you around 20 Euros a month to keep her happy, and every few years or so the re-broadcaster will be cut off by the police, but another one will soon take their place.

Of course, if your Spanish is fluent, you can watch the Spanish soaps, the Spanish call them tele basura.

lynnxa

that's what he meant by 'community' I'm sure

Tele Addict

No, he meant piped around a community of owners, maybe by cable, maybe by low power radio signal, but not broadcast.

Rotor

Its a shame the police dont take the same action against illegal immigrants selling pirate DVDs,CDs perfume etc, then there may be a chance of seeing some legal CD shops in smaller coastal towns.

HBG

Around here the police do take action, but for every Chinaman, or woman arrested, there are another million to take their place. I've bought a few DVDs from them, and quite often the film starts to wobble when you get to the important parts, but what can you say at three Euros a go?

jay01

This may seem a little strange, but if you know they are copies and potentially bad ones why buy them, why keep wasting your money and why keep giving these people are reason to do it and the profits to continue to do it.

The old adage of to good to be true comes to mind. I understand the concept of getting a bargin but a legitamate one is far a far better bargin to get.

HBG

It gets even worse. I bought a copy of Vista Ultimate from a market stall for fiver. It's so fast I can download songs in seconds. And Adobe Photoshop? I can even make my grandmother look like a filmstar with it.

I think you take a chance with bargains, but I enjoy shopping for them. And what about ebay? I'm bidding for a car at the moment. It sound too good to be true, but who knows? Two grand for a two-year old Picasso?

Rotor

Sounds expensive!!Hope you get it but I doubt it at that price.

Dick Dasterdly

I think they try to but they are usually out-smarted.
These guys set up stall on busy markets with nothing more than empty boxes showing only the CD/DVD title.
If a punter asks for one it will appear from afar as if by magic thru a series of mystery signals and assistants.
Even if the police want to make a case over one single CD they still end up with the wrong guy, as there is usually a stooge to complete the final transaction.