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June 16, 2004

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One of the more bizarre aspects of life in Hong Kong is the ever-present proponderence of fakes. Regardless of the ethics and morality of these products they are deemed illegal by the law. So why is it that the South China Morning Post has managed to run an article every day this week on illegal cable TV decoders, and yet the Hong Kong Police seem unable to find these people and shut them down? The SCMP reporter goes to the same street (Apliu St) each time, has found plenty of sellers of the decoders and smart cards needed to unscramble the signal. Cable TV had a partial victory by changing the code just minutes prior to the kick-off of Euro 2004 but already there are now fake smart cards that will find the new signal.

When the SCMP is doing better work than HK police you know something is seriously wrong.

 posted by Simon on 06.16.04 at 11:03 AM in the




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