A male owner of a Sham Shui Po shop was on Wednesday arrested by customs for selling a program online that allows users to bypass the paywall and watch paid TV channels for free ahead of next month's FIFA World Cup. Customs recently receive a complaint from Now TV, the copyright owner of those paid TV channels, that a seller has been promoting on online platforms a program that can stream its TV channels for free. Customs stressed that the copyright owner had applied an effective technological measure to protect its own copyright work. Those who wish to watch the paid TV channels legitimately must subscribe to the service and watch the channels either by using the official decoder or logging in to the online service account. The arrestee's program, with an annual fee ranging between HK$240 and HK$280, can live-stream the paid TV channels online as well.

Source: The Standard October 21, 2022 18:13 UTC