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Raid in Cyprus

Wednesday, June 15, 2011 10:14 a.m.

'' Circuit illegal for foreign television signals dismantled the police station

Nicosia: The arrest under warrant, a 49chronou from Limassol, which is deposited in the police admitted the illegal resale of the television signal subscriber channel British SKY, BFBS (British Force Base Station) and Nova Greece, went to Police in a coordinated operation, which began Tuesday at 9 am and ended late in the afternoon.

The arrested will arrive today before the Limassol District Court to seek the further detention to facilitate investigations.

Simultaneously, an arrest warrant in connection with the case against chronou also from Limassol, who is wanted.

It said police spokesman, Michael Katsounotos in the business, planning for which began four months ago, members of the Cyprus Police, accompanied by five foreign experts and technicians in particular Directors channel SKY, BFBS, Nova Greece and the company's satellite IRDETO coding purposes technological support.

He said that according to the company under court orders, surveyed a total of three premises from which received various items such as laptop computers, data storage devices (USB), Core Servers (Servers), received for further scientific and forensic examinations.

Mr. Katsounotos said that''this is a great success because of the Cyprus Police with the cooperation of the affected, methodically, professionalism and complete confidentiality brought to a successful completion of their mission,''adding that the estimate is that there is'' the activity of the suspects was a long time if you consider that offered to sell subscriptions of the television signal at three, six and twelve months for the amount of 55, 89 and 155 euros respectively, without the authorization of the beneficiaries.''

He said the company involved in Anti-Money Laundering Office of Intellectual Property and illegal betting Police Headquarters in collaboration with the Department of Investigation Command, the Forensic Laboratory Department of Electronic Data D. Technical Support and the Criminal Intelligence Service.

According to Mr. Katsounotou the planning of the operation began four months ago and ended yesterday after the information was submitted to the Office for Combating Money Intellectual Property in cooperation with representatives of the British SKY subscription channels and BFBS (British Force Base Station) and Nova Greece on the basis of which was found on the web site through which it offered for sale by its subscription services by an unauthorized person.

He added that the purpose of the company was investigating the case on the following offenses: Conspiracy to commit felony and misdemeanor, fraud, abuse of inventions, unauthorized access and unlawful interference with a computer, illegal exploitation of copyright in violation of the provisions of the law ratifying democracy Convention for the crime through the Internet, contrary to the Prevention and Suppression Act of income from illegal acts and other offenses.

He noted that the offenses were committed in unknown at this stage dates in Cyprus through Cyprus or abroad. ''

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Joint police and industry action stops Cyprus pirate

Published: 09.46 Europe/London, June 21, 2011 by Robert Briel

'' A police raid in Cyprus has stopped the largest case of commercial card sharing in the country. BFBS, the radio and TV service for British forces overseas, and AEPOC members BSkyB, Nova and Irdeto, initiated an undercover investigation, which led to the pirate provider admitting charges.

The successful police operation against a large scale pay-TV pirate in Cyprus was initiated by AEPOC members and its partners – BFBS, BSkyB, Nova and Irdeto supported the undercover action during past months and assisted the police in a raid with a team of specialists.

On June 14, a 49-year-old Cypriot man was arrested for illegally providing subscriptions to the pay-TV offerings of BFBS, BSkyB and Nova. The accused has already admitted the charges. The police are still seeking a second suspect. Servers, computers and associated equipment have been seized to undergo a forensic examination.

The pirate is accused of having provided illegal pay-TV subscriptions to nearly 1,400 clients in Cyprus and across Europe – at least within the timeframe October 2010 to May 2011 earning a minimum of some €100,000 according to first findings.

For giving illicit access to the pay-TV channels the man and the second suspect established a network of five servers which distributed the required access codes from single, legitimate but abused smart cards to the clients’ equipment. This case represents one of the largest incidents of commercial pay-TV piracy based on “card sharing”, given the harmful potential of five robust servers – and is the biggest case for Cyprus. The man is said to have sold illegal three, six and 12-months subscriptions for €55, €89 and €155, respectively.

The police focus their investigation on the accused in view of commercial piracy but did not rule out that also the individual clients who purchased the illicit subscriptions could have to fear consequences: EU legislation such as the Conditional Access Directive and other protection such as copyright laws forbid the use of pirate equipment to access audiovisual services such as pay-TV.

The action was initiated by AEPOC members and their partners towards the end of 2010, followed by a carefully prepared undercover operation during four months. Close collaboration of the industry to support the Cypriot enforcement authorities proved very successful to bring down this pirate activity in a record time.

Michael Barley, AEPOC’s VP, said in a statement: “Every pirate activity leaves a trace, be it IP-addresses, websites to sell illegal offerings or even payment receipts issued to clients of an illicit card sharing network as in the Cypriot case. AEPOC and its members are committed to follow each incident and bring down pirates. Trustful collaboration with the police helps to achieve anti-piracy results in an increasingly short timeframe. Nevertheless, the EU legislative framework needs to evolve further to build an even bigger deterrent to prevent audiovisual piracy in the first place.” ''

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ANOTHER 7 RAIDS in CYPRUS

'' More illegal TV arrests

Published on June 29, 2011

LIMASSOL police yesterday arrested six men including two foreign nationals on suspicion of providing subscription television illegally.

Police believe they are connected to two other suspects arrested earlier this month for the same reason.

The men are suspected of illegally supplying subscription channels Sky UK, BFBS and Nova Greece for a fee.

They were arrested during a police raid yesterday during which officers seized six servers, a number of computers and other equipment.

The servers seem to be connected together so that if one was put out of operation the signal would continue to be broadcast through the others without the subscribers noticing, police spokesman Michalis Katsounotos said. ''

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