Spanish National Police have broken up an international network which was selling pirated television signals. 27 people have been arrested in total, and there are as many as 77 implicated in the scam which had 57 interconnected servers in several EU countries.
25 of the servers were in Spain, in Córdoba, Jaén, Sevilla, Cádiz, Almería, Barcelona, Alicante, Murcia, Gran Canaria, Guipúzcoa, Mallorca, Madrid and Orense. Each server could send the signals to as many as 150 users, who were charged 15 € a month.
The Europol police operation remains open and more arrests have not been ruled out. A statement from the Spanish National Police said that the gang used a cutting edge pioneering system to offer pay TV channels over the internet, using a system known as ‘cardsharing’ to redistribute the signal obtained from a single legitimate subscriber.
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