MultiChoice targets 5,000 counterfeit remotes, joins Partners Against Piracy

[Jan]

Police seize and destroy 5,000 fake DStv remotes

MultiChoice has announced that South African police seized and saw to the destruction of 5,000 counterfeit remote controls that infringed on the company’s DStv logo trademark.

The company said the remotes undermined its intellectual property rights and posed a significant threat to its profitability and reputation.

 

[jezzad]

Surprised counterfeiters think they will actually sell them.....

 

[Polymathic]

Pay through the nose for a new remote or cancel DSTV?

 

[KikzAzz]

Wow, awesome police work. They are definitely clamping down on crime and corruption in this country.

 

[B-1]

They always have to get their little pirate tirade in there. Has nothing to do with counterfeit products that were seized.

 

[r00igev@@r]

That put those petty criminals in their place. Now let us celebrate with a few buckets of KFC and ignore the ministers helping throw rocks into the ESKOM boilers.

 

[Rickster]

Explora 3 - R699
Explora 3 Remote - R297

Wtf...

 

[Mekon]

Wow, this is awesome. South Africa is a safer place now that there are 5000 less fake DStv remotes.

 

[konfab]

The company said the remotes undermined its intellectual property rights and posed a significant threat to its profitability and reputation.

Remote sales are a core of their business?

 

[bwana]

I don't care.

Not even remotely...

 

[Sinbad]

I don't care.

Not even remotely...

Liar, you know this pushes your buttons

 

[Bewlen]

Were the SAPS also escorted to the site of these crimes by private security? I wonder if they prefer Chubb, ADT or Fidelity

 

[quovadis]

Coming soon... the same remotes with a surprisingly similar but DTsv logo. So not to infringe...

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

Multichoice pissing against a Hurricane of fake remotes.

 

[ThinkCentre]

5000 were destroyed but how many went home?

 

[Vorastra]

Explora 3 - R699
Explora 3 Remote - R297

Wtf...

Decoders are subsidised by the subscription to create the consumer.

The remotes are there to gouge the consumers that are now bought in.

 

[Nerfherder]

Police seize and destroy 5,000 fake DStv remotes

MultiChoice has announced that South African police seized and saw to the destruction of 5,000 counterfeit remote controls that infringed on the company’s DStv logo trademark.

The company said the remotes undermined its intellectual property rights and posed a significant threat to its profitability and reputation.

Might as well join the UIF queue at the same time....

 

[elf_lord_ZC5]

Surprised counterfeiters think they will actually sell them.....

5000 exactly, smells like a put up job ...

 

[Anelist]

So this is what our police have been busy with, chasing remotes

 

[noxibox]

So this is what our police have been busy with, chasing remotes

I think they're not supposed to harass cannabis users anymore, so they have to find some other soft target.