Public Prosecution Service demands community service and 70,000 euros against man who sold illegal TV subscriptions

The Public Prosecution Service is demanding 180 hours of community service and restitution of 70,000 euros against a 51-year-old man from Etten-Leur who traded in illegal TV subscriptions. David S. sold Dreamboxes, which allowed users to watch Ziggo channels illegally.

In seven years, around 465,000 euros were in the account that S. had opened in his mother's name, Omroep reports Brabant. Approximately 400 names of customers who bought a Dreambox from the man were found in his administration: a kind of receiver that can share the data of a legal Ziggo subscription with other Dreamboxes. The data was shared with its customers via S.'s servers. In 2018, about twenty computers and hard drives were seized in a raid on his home. Another man is said to have been responsible for the technology behind the illegal TV subscriptions, although no investigation has been conducted into the man in question, who is known to S. only as 'Marcel'.

According to S He has earned 14,000 euros in seven years from the sale of the Dreamboxes. According to the man, another 3,000 euros in costs would have to be deducted from that amount. He previously confessed to the police that it involved 70,000 euros. The Public Prosecution Service therefore demands that S. repay the 70,000 euros, as well as 180 hours of community service. The man, who has been out of debt restructuring since January, says he cannot pay this amount. Because the raid took place in 2018, no longer a prison sentence is required. The court will make a ruling in the case on June 24.