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1,600 Korean Hotel Guests Were Secretly Filmed and Live-Streamed Online (cnn.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the creepy-is-an-understatement dept.

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.

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  1. Re: Caveat emtpor by Pascoea · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Seriously What the hell, just check your surroundings and you should be able to figure out if you're being watched most of the time pretty quick.

    Yeah, no. I've sold/installed cameras for legitimate businesses. It's not hard at all to hide cameras that you won't find unless you start taking devices apart. Smoke detectors come to mind as a quick way to go about it. Anything that already has power running to it is a great target.

    Who would pay for these random videos anyway?

    This is the biggest tragedy, these dumbasses are getting busted for $6000. They only got less than 1% to sign up? That's a horrible effort.

    I bet it's mostly really long hugs.

    Yeah. For the most part it's going to be pretty boring. But I know what I've done in hotel rooms... I'm the only one, and I can't believe I'm the most "adventurous" one either. There's a lot of voyeurs out there that would pay good money for this kind of crap.