New anti-piracy crackdown in Rhodes – Arrests and long prison sentences in the UK too
War and back-and-forth appear to have broken out in recent days between pay-TV pirate criminal organizations to secure illegal clientele, following the historic channel-swapping deal between Nova and Cosmote.
Trash illegal devices
Specifically, the island of Rhodes is in turmoil after a coordinated operation by dozens of police officers of the Electronic Crime Prosecution in the early hours of Friday. Information states that a major reseller of the island has been arrested and large sums of money and digital devices have been found. He is now in the sights of the authorities and the multitude of clientele which was found in his possession from all over the island of Rhodes, but also from other regions of Greece, in continuation of the 50,000 illegal subscribers investigated by previous police operations. Once again they were noticed illegal end-user devices in the trash for fear of arrest.
The United Kingdom is also in the fray
After the big cases against TV piracy in Greece, Italy, Spain, now also the United Kingdom is recording great successes in dealing with piracy.
A 40-year-old man from Manchester was sentenced to four years and nine months in prison for advertising and selling specially configured set-top boxes that gave viewers access to illegal content.
Merseyside Police’s Cyber Crime Unit has announced that a 41-year-old man from Liverpool has been jailed for two years after pleading guilty to charges of promoting and selling illegally modified Amazon Fire Sticks that gave users access to TV content.
A 42-year-old man involved in providing illegal Sky TV content has been arrested in Nottingham and is now facing years in prison and hefty fines.
In Stockton-on-Tees, a 52-year-old man was arrested also in an operation by the North East Regional Organized Crime Unit.
At the same time it seems that all European governmentsthe UK, as well as the US, are starting to take stronger legislative measures to limit the economic government losses and lost jobs from this underground economy linked to organized crime, now making ordinary end-users jointly responsible with heavy fines .
Source: Skai
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