By South China Morning Post | Created at 2024-09-24 09:42:44 | Updated at 2024-09-30 11:27:12
6 days ago
Hong Kong customs has arrested a computer programmer and his father on suspicion of illegally live-streaming English Premier League football matches from Now TV paid channels to more than 200 viewers.
The Post learned on Tuesday that customs officers raided the suspects’ public housing flat in the Lok Fu area of Wong Tai Sin district around 9.30pm on Sunday, about half an hour after the match between Brighton and Nottingham Forest kicked off.
Senior Inspector Alex Choy Chun-wai of customs’ intellectual property investigation bureau said officers used forensic and network analysing tools to conduct real-time evidence collection before carrying out the raid.
Inside the flat, customs officers seized a laptop computer, a TV decoder, an HDMI splitter, and audio as well as video equipment. The seized electronic products were worth about HK$20,000 (US$2,570).
The Post also learned that the 43-year-old man, a computer programmer, was the registered subscriber of Now TV paid channels and his father was unemployed.
