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22-06-2012, 21:17
*Crackdown on illegal satellite TV dishes Amira Agarib / 21 June 2012 Expatriates enjoying their regular TV fare from back home through illegally imported satellite channel receivers, beware! The Dubai Police are intensifying its campaign against satellite TV piracy and infringements on intellectual property rights. The General Department of Criminal Investigation has started responding to formal complaints lodged by satellite TV network owners who pointed to the heavy losses they incur because of the spread of illegal satellite TV dish antennae and receivers. Brigadier Khalil Ibrahim Al Mansouri, Director of the General Department of Criminal Investigation, said the Anti-Economic Crime Unit is making all efforts to eliminate satellite TV piracy through the campaign in coordination with parties representing the telecasting networks in the UAE and the owners of intellectual property rights. He noted that in the event of receiving a complaint from these organisations about a building committing such violations, the police would ask the building management or the real estate office managing the building to remove the dish antennae.