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1,600 Korean Hotel Guests Were Secretly Filmed and Live-Streamed Online (cnn.com)
dryriver shares a report from CNN: About 1,600 people have been secretly filmed in hotel rooms in South Korea, with the footage live-streamed online for paying customers to watch, police said Wednesday. Two men have been arrested and another pair investigated in connection with the scandal, which involved 42 rooms in 30 accommodations in 10 cities around the country. Police said there was no indication the businesses were complicit in the scheme. Cameras were hidden inside digital TV boxes, wall sockets and hairdryer holders and the footage was streamed online, the Cyber Investigation Department at the National Police Agency said in a statement. The streaming site had more than 4,000 members, 97 of whom paid a $44.95 monthly fee to access extra features, such as the ability to replay certain live streams. The site had more than 4,000 members, 97 of whom paid a $44.95 monthly fee to access extra features, such as the ability to replay certain live streams. Between November 2018 and this month, police said, the service brought in upward of $6,000.
The streaming site had more than 4,000 members, 97 of whom paid a $44.95 monthly fee to access extra features, such as the ability to replay certain live streams. The site had more than 4,000 members, 97 of whom paid a $44.95 monthly fee to access extra features, such as the ability to replay certain live streams. The streaming site had more than 4,000 members, 97 of whom paid a $44.95 monthly fee to access extra features, such as the ability to replay certain live streams. The site had more than 4,000 members, 97 of whom paid a $44.95 monthly fee to access extra features, such as the ability to replay certain live streams.
The streaming site had more than 4,000 members, 97 of whom paid a $44.95 monthly fee to access extra features, such as the ability to replay certain live streams. The site had more than 4,000 members, 97 of whom paid a $44.95 monthly fee to access extra features, such as the ability to replay certain live streams.
Maybe in North Korea!
They should be charged for being lousy businessmen!
97 * 44.95 would mean 4360.15 per month, but their average so far is 1200 per month.
Soo... not that profitable (yet), really. Also, 97/4001 ("more than 4000") is a little less than 2.5%. Not sure what to make of that, though the freemium-experts will probably think that's a pretty good percentage. Voyeurism is, apparently, a fairly eclectic pastime, even at an industrial scale.
All fun and games until you get caught. Actually, if you're into this, go watch CCTV all day for a living. Mostly boring, but those modern cams are steerable and give amazingly sharp, low-light, and zoomable pictures. Getting paid, full control, and plausible deniability all rolled into one. Why you'd want to pay anyone else? Well, we can't all be that much into peeping, can we?
...only to find some business suit clad paper pusher with thick glasses sitting at a desk in the room processing legal documents all night.
I wonder if any of the pervs had the foresight to use video screen capture software?
I get Slashdot for free and it includes the ability to replay certain sentences
Did the site had more than 4,000 members?
About 1,600 people have been secretly filmed in hotel rooms in South Korea, with the footage live-streamed online for paying customers to watch, police said Wednesday
This is why I always run around my hotel room wearing a full body Sasquatch suit.
The site had more than 4,000 members, 97 of whom paid a $44.95 monthly fee to access extra features, such as the ability to replay certain live streams? Why didn't you mention it at least twice to make that understood?
Pleas links to the streams or it didn't happen :)
"The likes of Facebook and WhatsApp are free to those whose privacy is of zero value."
Slashdot ..... where dupes now occur within the articles summary!!
repeating an entire sentences...
Good to see /. standards haven't dropped, or improved at all!
> The streaming site had more than 4,000 members, 97 of whom paid a $44.95 monthly fee to access extra features, such as the ability to replay certain live streams. The site had more than 4,000 members, 97 of whom paid a $44.95 monthly fee to access extra features, such as the ability to replay certain live streams
Can you repeat this again?
Slashdot, once you were great. Now you can't afford editors who read. What's next, removing users who read? Oh wait, that's already there. 2000 comments on posts indicate "I can't be bothered to read anyone else's comment. Nobody else would have the insight I do. Let me just post my opinion because my insight is so important."
Time to hire editors that read... or CLOSE UP SHOP.
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All that work and they netted a whopping $6000.
And what the summary forgot to mention (unless I missed it) was that the streaming site had more than 4,000 members, 97 of whom paid a $44.95 monthly fee to access extra features, such as the ability to replay certain live streams.
You'd be surprised how some people have absolutely no problem with being caught lying in public or sexually harassing women, yet would be terrified to be caught during a perfectly legal sexual activity.
Didn't that site have more than 4,000 members, 97 of whom paid a $44.95 monthly?
It's kind of sad that this will prevent a lot of people from staying in anything but chain hotels in the future. Oh well, more better vacations for the rest of us.
Replaying the sentence that talks about replaying live streams? I see what you did there.
head on - apply directly to the forehead! head on - apply directly to the forehead! head on - apply directly to the forehead!
Not only does Slashdot have dupes on the same day, but now in the same summary?
Did somebody say "The Streaming site had more than 4,000 members, 97 of whom paid a $44.95 monthly fee to access extra features, such as the ability to replay certain live streams"?
Does this mean we should look for cameras in our hotel rooms, or trust that the hotel owner did it for us already? How do you actually find such cameras?
Absolutely seriously, how could you check into a hotel room and have any confidence it has no cameras in it? Even if you look for them, and even if you find a couple, how would you know you've got them all? I guess if I found one, I'd probably check out immediately in a huff, but then maybe just right into another hotel room that had better hidden cameras.
This isn't really anything new, but I guess the prevalence of 'spy cameras' on Amazon/ebay mean that the last people in the room might have bugged it for whomever comes in next. That's a little different from the room being bugged specifically for errant would-be presidents or whatever.
It's not just that he had two hookers- it's that he asked for ones that looked like Ivana and Ivanka!
/. is getting pretty bad with the dupes.
They filmed and live streamed?
That is a lot to do working with film then digitising to live stream it.
There isn't a North or South Korea, just Korea. Half the country is in open Rebellion, which half depends on who you ask.
And it wasn't the US who split it, it was the Chinese.
Hotels should install cameras in each room with round-the-clock monitoring, so they can ensure no one installs any cameras in their rooms.
that explains why he was paying off whores.
the last few years. Stayed in a few different hotels there. I want my cut of the profits.
Some people can't get enough of my fat ass and average penis. My mom says I have a "cute face" however.
Folks need to know that hidef cameras can be hidden almost anywhere, but in a light switch, lamp-bulb, or wall power socket is the best since power is available. If you just want to record someone for a day, a tiny battery powered device can work. You can find reviews of the many different devices on youtube - about $20-$300, though quality doesn't seem to be reflected by higher price.
It sounded so nice they said it twice!
Curse you! I just bashed my head into the wall multiple times trying to drive that inane commercial from my head. I wonder what I can use for my headache?
I haven't ever been to South Korea, but I feel sorry for anyone who would see the streams of me and my wife - they'd be scarred for life!
for 40 cameras...he probably lost a shit load of money operating this not to mention the jail time. 40 cameras with internet connections would not be cheap.
That's crazy! I have half that many subscribers but charge double. Greedy guys dropped the price too much.
And yes of course they recorded it too.
Great post but I'm still left wondering, how many members? And how much did they pay for extra features?
I'm surprised there aren't hotels that offer free rooms to people who allow cameras to watch them. They get to be exhibitionists, pervs get to watch them, and hotels make money. Its a win win win.
Ninjas don't carry tic tacs
Apparently, you're one of them
Has anyone come across a list of the hotels this happened in? All I see is "42 rooms in 30 accommodations in 10 cities around the country.".
Sorry, what was that?
See, at first I thought you were talking about actual rape rape, not some bullshit huggy feely mental anguish privacy bullshit. Just want you to know you're losing people like me. I'm a democrat and vote democrat regularly but I'm not some tree hugging hippy that gets PTSD everytime someone yells at me. The extreme lefties are fucking this up for you guys. The US IS getting tired of oversensitivity. Not every thing is rape, not every thing is racist, and not every god damned thing a woman does or says is fucking untouchable gospel.
Oh right, I wrote all of this out and forgot that you don't actually give a shit. You aren't a democrat. You aren't even an American. Why do you shit all over this website all the time? Did the UK run you off of all of their sites?
And we didn't even have to pay the $44.95!