Anti-Piracy: NCC shuts Real Summit Television Network, Arrests Three Staff
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The Enugu State Directorate office of the Nigeria Copyright Commission has shut down Real Summit Television Network for allegedly rebroadcasting copyright-protected content to Nsukka residents and its environs.
The Commission also arrested three staff of the network and confiscated thousands of equipments including over 70 different decoders of various cable networks and computers.
Conducting journalists round the station at the University Town of Nsukka in Nsukka Local Government area of Enugu State, during a broadcast anti-piracy operation, Assistant Director of Operation, Mr Okwudili Macfoy said the station was not licensed by the Nigeria Communications Commission.
According to him, the network was illegally rebroadcasting copyright-protected contents of other cable networks to its customers.
Speaking with newsmen shortly after the operation, the State Director of the Commission, Mrs Okeke Ngozi warned those in the habit of pirating copyright-protected products to desist before the long arm of the law caught up with them.
“The operation today is an outcome of campaign that the Commission had been carrying over a period of time against privacy, campaign against theft, campaign against laziness, campaign against robbing Peter to pay Paul. It is a campaign also we have been carrying against destroying the economy of the country.
Credit: The Punch
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