The Department of Economy of United Arab Emirates has ordered the port authorities to intensify the measurements to confiscate the television decoders for satellite that are imported illegally in the country.
The department also has warned straight to the persons and companies involved in the illegal import of the decoders, which allow the fraudulent access of some platforms of television of payment. In this sense, the police of Dubai they have already realized several raids with the detention of several persons and the seizure of diverse material.
Other countries of the region will adopt shortly similar measurements that finish at the entry of illegal decoders in his country, according to the Department of
EAU.
The piracy punishes to several Arab platforms
This is the case of some channels of
Art or of
Showtime, which express in the orbital position of 7th West of the satellites
Nilesat. In case of
Showtime, it offers more of half a hundred of channels of television, which use the system of conditional access
Irdeto 2, vulnerable in last months, according to the observation of several forums dedicated to the satellite television.
Showtime has approximately 2 million subscribers, including 30 % of the market of the television of payment of the area of Middle East and North Africa.
As showed in due time Danny Bottoms, executive vice-president of
Showtime, approximately 22 millions of persons have gone so far as to gain access of illegal and fraudulent form to the offer of the platform. This fact supposes, according to the manager, ten times more the number of "legal" subscribers who arranges
Showtime.
Showtime
(SatCesc, 05/06/08) 
This is the case of United Arab Emirates that has arranged the confiscation of the 
