Taiwan's "Criminal Bureau" used its scientific and technological expertise and digital identification crime scene equipment to handle cases and successfully cracked the first large-scale underground interceptor of the TV station signal room on the island. It roughly estimated tha

China News Service, June 26, According to Taiwan's "Central News Agency", the Taiwan "Criminal Bureau" used its scientific and technological expertise and digital identification crime scene equipment to handle cases and successfully cracked the first large-scale underground interceptor of the TV station signal room on the island. It is roughly estimated that illegal profits and infringement damages exceed 100 billion yuan (NT$, the same below), and the whole case will be handled in accordance with the law.

Two men were suspected of using a large number of satellite receivers to receive digital signals from cable TV. Photo source: Taiwan's United Daily News reporter Li Yixin/Photo by

Taiwan's "Criminal Bureau" Telecom Investigation Brigade held a press conference on the 25th, saying that the prosecutor of the New Taipei District Prosecutor's Office recently directed the First Team of the "Criminal Bureau" Telecom Investigation Brigade and the Second Corps of the Security Police Corps Criminal Police Brigade to form a project team. Through online packet investigation, it was found that Wang and Li used private houses in New Taipei City , Taichung City and Tainan City to set up a large-scale intercepting TV signal room.

The police found in-depth investigation that Wang and Li converted cable TV stations or satellite signals into network streaming format by installing powerful wave devices and codecs, and instead provided live broadcast channels for set-top box or mobile APP.

Wang and Li steal legal signals from cable TV, MOD and satellite TV in one-on-one manner, and cunningly use the Internet to cover up criminal behavior.

The police pointed out that in order to improve the image quality, Wang and Li even spent a lot of money to set up large satellite antennas and evolved the transcoding equipment from the first generation to the third generation. They also spent a lot of money to purchase broadband and additional equipment every month. The stolen signal content and transmission speed were nearly as close to the legal signal room.

After investigation, it was found that more than hundreds of cable TV channels on the island were stolen by suspects, and even foreign movie channels and sports programs were intercepted and signaled. It is roughly estimated that the illegal profits and infringement losses exceeded at least 100 billion yuan.

The "Criminal Bureau" uses its scientific and technological expertise to combine the intelligent property investigation and investigation of the second criminal police brigade, and successfully disintegrates the source of live broadcast signals based on clues. At the same time, through digital identification crime scene equipment, the suspect was caught on the 22nd. This is also the first time that a large-scale underground interceptor of the TV station signal room was cracked on the island.

seized stolen evidence including 37 network equipment, 415 hubs, 4 fourth waveformers, 294 set-top boxes, 314 satellite signal decoders, 41 computer servo hosts, mobile phones and financial books, etc.

The police said that since the relevant signals in this case are transmitted to overseas hosts through the network, the investigation of other possible receiving end hosts and end devices is now continuing to expand.