Busted !!!!

[jason_7499]

I was watching the news this morning and 2 guys from Coal Lake, Alberta are going to court on charges of using a "special card to descramble satellite signals"

They did not mention how they got caught, anyone have any ideas how they got busted?

[jason_7499]

I was watching the news this morning and 2 guys from Coal Lake, Alberta are going to court on charges of using a "special card to descramble satellite signals"

They did not mention how they got caught, anyone have any ideas how they got busted?

What? Nobody has any idea how they got caught?

[SRsmokealot]

My Brother is visiting his in-laws in alberta this week and he mentioned this to me on the phone this morn.
Rumor up there is that they were less than a week away from releaseing a P4 OR D1 fix for D*V users.
He says they were taken in and had the goods confiscated which included NOT 1 of these devices BUT upwards of 10,000 of these cards similar to a magic or rev card I think.
This is all just hear-say but comes from a reliable first hand source.
Plus the media is picking up on it and WOULD they really evem mention a bust for simple piracy.
I think not unless it is a slow day for car wreck or murders...lol (time filler)

[r_hill]

Cold Lake councillors busted for satellite TV cards


Two Cold Lake town councillors have been charged with having black-market satellite TV access cards in their homes. Ron Young, a 24-year veteran of the Cold Lake council and a provincial Liberal candidate in the last election, told the Sun yesterday that RCMP have charged him with owning an illegal satellite access card.

"If I'm found guilty, it will obviously compromise my position on council," he said.

"I want to emphasize the presumption of innocence at this point.

"It's before the courts right now, and that's really all I can say."

According to an RCMP news release, Young was charged last Friday with two counts under the Criminal Code and Radiocommunication Act.

"The offences deal with distribution, offer for sale, install, operate or possession of equipment or devices contrary to legal processes," said the RCMP news release.

Young has retained a lawyer.

His council colleague, Lloyd Belcourt, was charged a day earlier with what appear to be identical counts under the Code and Radiocommunication Act. Both men are to appear in Cold Lake provincial court on Sept. 8.

The charges were laid as a result of a nine-month investigation between the RCMP, 4 Wing Cold Lake military police and Industry Canada. The Mounties say "many" illegal cards were surrendered to them by Cold Lake residents during the investigation.

So-called pirate AVR cards are used to trick satellite TV providers into delivering an un!!!!!!!!! signal to a household which hasn't paid for the service. In 2002, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that all unlicensed "grey-market" descramblers are illegal.

The RCMP started tracking pirate cards after 4 Wing base officials blamed them in 2002 for their pilots' complaints of loud bursts of static on cockpit emergency radios.

The radio noise generated by the cards goes out on the same frequency used by emergency locator transmitters in downed aircraft.

Young has already announced his intention to retire with the next civic election in October. "I'm just hoping this doesn't interfere with my ability to complete my term," he said. "I'm co-operating completely with the investigation."

Cold Lake Mayor Hansa Thaleshvar would only say that the charges "are between the councillors and the courts. The council is not involved."

[jason_7499]

"The radio noise generated by the cards goes out on the same frequency used by emergency locator transmitters in downed aircraft. "

are you kidding me? wow.


what kind of a sentence do you think they will receive?

[r_hill]

Off the top of my head.... (always a risky thing to try), I think it's $10,000 fine and up to 6 months in prison.

[jason_7499]

Off the top of my head.... (always a risky thing to try), I think it's $10,000 fine and up to 6 months in prison.


holy shit

what are the chances of someone just testing on their own receiver being caught if "The radio noise generated by the cards goes out on the same frequency used by emergency locator transmitters in downed aircraft. "

couldn't they just track this radio noise to someone that is testing?

[JT]

Yep, those AVR boards create interference in the 9Mhz range. AVR's that use this frequency have been around since the H card.

[r_hill]

Cold Lake is out in the middle of nowhere...it's a CF Air Base. Everything there revolves around the military. You *might* be able to track down RF noise in a small community like that, but in the big city....??? Forget about it.....

;-)

Anyway, I think these guys got busted because they were dealing, and they probably weren't very discreet about it.