6.2.09
Pirate's bounty
This bloke can just about put his fine and conviction down to commercial risk:
A MELBOURNE man who sold decoder cards that gave users free access to pay television programming has been fined $7000.I'm no mathematician, but that looks like a pretty good arrangement for Pirate Rod.
Rodney Paul Doove, 43, of Mount Waverley, yesterday pleaded guilty in the Melbourne Magistrates Court to six counts of selling unauthorised decoders.
Prosecutor Liz Tickey said the scam was discovered when a Foxtel fraud investigator received an anonymous tip.
"In July 2007 (a) Foxtel fraud investigator received information… that unauthorised decoders, known as gamma cards, were available for sale at $400 each," she said.
The court heard that between July and August 2007 the investigator bought 25 gamma cards for a total of $8550.
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