Bellshill man facing jail for selling CS boxes.

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A LANDSCAPE gardener is facing jail after running an illegal scheme that may have cost television giants Sky almost £5million. Gavin Gray earned thousands of pounds by selling decryption codes which allowed premium channels such as Sky Sports to be viewed. The codes were given to him for personal use in his home. However, he banked more than £120,000 when he began selling them to people online. Gray, of Bellshill, Lanarkshire, built up a list of 1,800 clients each paying £5 a month for the service over a four-year period. Prosecutors later estimated the annual cost to Sky could top £1.2 million. The entire operation was carried out online as he used a number of forums and websites to attract customers eager to save money. He also set up a scheme to share among his clients cards which contained the decryption codes. But Gray's crime^spree ended when copyright investigators lured him into sending passwords and codes to them online and police were called in. A raid at his home in July 2014 discovered a safe containing £44,260 in cash and quantities of digital TV boxes and pass cards. At Hamilton Sheriff Court, Gray, 25, admitted setting up the illegal scheme that raked in £120,434 between January 2010 and July 2014. He also admitted running a card-sharing service to provide a means of decoding the encrypted programming and to possessing a device to enable circumvention of encrypted satellite broadcasts. And he confessed to advertising an unauthorized decoder for sale between May and July 2014. Depute fiscal Callum Forsyth said: "The accused was supplying the encrypted control word through his server to the client's box. "Clients using the service must have the user name, password, internet address and port number for a card sharing server entered into their client cable set top box. This was provided to them by the accused." He added: "No authorization had been given to the accused to provide access to the broadcasting to others. "At that time, the full Sky package cost £57 per month. "The potential monthly loss to Sky as a result of this operation was £102,600 which amounts to £ 1,231,200 per year based on 1,800 clients as claimed by the accused during the search." Elspeth Forrest, defending, said: "He is employed as a landscaper and has dealt with this matter responsibly by tendering an early plea of guilty."Sheriff Thomas Millar told Gray: "I'm required to get reports before deciding on a sentence. You have dealt with this matter responsibly so I will continue bail." Gray declined to comment after leaving the court.

Source: Scottish Daily Express 14th January 2017
 
would like to see a few more go to the gallows lol
 
Seen people on facebook offering full sly packages on plex and apk for android. Surely sly must be monitoring this.
 
Will these greedy eejits never learn. It’s getting cs a bad name.....lol!
BTW….How much longer will sly, vm & BT be able to support the obscene pay levels of the European & EPL footballers ? If they all debunk to China to form a super league, leaving the not so talented guys in the EPL, then both sly & vm will get their fingers severely burned as nobody will pay their exhorbitant subs to watch UK footie.
 
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