Hong Kong streaming raids

Hong Kong Customs undertook an enforcement action in March against illegal TV and anime streaming. Customs officers seized TV decoders, TV signal receivers servers computers and other equipment from premises in Tsuen Wan. Customs were able to conduct the raid by using computer forensic software to conduct real-time monitoring during illegal broadcasts of overseas basketball games. Over 50,000 digital video files were also seized from one of the computer servers, including suspected infringing animated series, movies and other shows. A 26cyear old man was arrested.

The infringers had set up a web page to stream copyright-protected pay-TV channels. They bypassed the DRM protection and redistributed the streams through a specialised TV signal receiver and illegal streaming software. They promoted their "digital TV retransmission station" to attract customers. A second website offered anime on-demand streaming.