A community of 27 neighbors of Mataró shared for seven years the expense of an euro a month for a decoder that it had installed in the patio and that was giving the sign of the chains to all the neighbors

These 27 neighbors of the locality of Barcelona of Mataró had an only one installed for the whole community dsecodificador in the patio of his building situated in the street Route Europe, according to the police, in an operation that has ended with the detention as imputed of the president of the community, last April 25.

Everything started when a new tenant of the farm that he installed in his Digital house + called a Sogecable technician because it was not managing to find the sign. The technician rose to the roof and apercibió of the existence of an installation that was allowing to distribute the sign of the channels of Digitalis + for the whole community. The employee did photos and denounced it to the National Body of Police officer.

The Unit of Technological Crimes investigated the case and found out that 27 neighbors were paying an euro the month to see Digitalis + from hacía seven years. The precursor and holder of the initiative turned out to be an ancient neighbor who at present lives in Saragossa.

The police also stopped him as imputed two days after the arrest of the president of the community, d enombre Eduardo. To both declaration took them for a crime against the industrial and intellectual property.

From the investigations, the agents met on a parallel operation. In the street Majorca of Barcelona, in a shop, decoders and cards were devoting themselves to sell pirate. The police took declaration to the proprietor of the shop and confiscated 16 softwares and 57 cards. The operation remains opened and new detentions do not discard.


(09/05/07)