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11 August 2016

PIPCU makes arrests over illegal set-top boxes

The City of London’s Police Intellectual Property Unit (PIPCU) has arrested three people in an operation designed to stop the distribution of TV set-top boxes that had been illegally modified to stream pirated content.

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