1,600 Korean Hotel Guests Were Secretly Filmed and Live-Streamed Online (cnn.com) 103
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... (Score:4, Funny)
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.
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I get Slashdot for free and it includes the ability to replay certain sentences
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Imagine paying for a live stream... (Score:2, Funny)
...only to find some business suit clad paper pusher with thick glasses sitting at a desk in the room processing legal documents all night.
Re:Imagine paying for a live stream... (Score:5, Funny)
...only to find some business suit clad paper pusher with thick glasses sitting at a desk in the room processing legal documents all night.
Rule 34
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Huawei 5G capability, coming to a hairdryer/bidet or powerpoint near you. Wah I was made fun of for my comb over swoop.
Re: Imagine paying for a live stream... (Score:2)
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"War is good for business."
Not to be confused with rule 35.
Caveat emtpor (Score:5, Funny)
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.
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Rule 34?
More like Area 51.
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Area FurryOne.
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Area FurryOne.
Hehe ...
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The outrage is hilarious. As though this hasn't been seen many times before. 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. Who would pay for these random videos anyway? I bet it's mostly really long hugs.
But I like the soft fluffiness of the Sasquatch fur so much ...
Re: Caveat emtpor (Score:5, 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.
Re: Caveat emtpor (Score:2)
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This is why I always run around my hotel room wearing a full body Sasquatch suit.
I hear that "Sasquatch Hotel Vacation" is the most repeated live stream in South Korea, particularly the hair drying scene.
Are you brave enough to hit Google image search with the term: 'Sasquatch porn'?
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For me, I run around naked with my fat body so viewers get turned off! ;)
So let me get this straight... (Score:1)
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Slashdot obviously signed up for the replay feature.
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That may be true, but I heard 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.
Links (Score:4, Funny)
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It's all been scrubbed, except from the dark corners of the net that you can't simply link to. These are videos of people being sexually assaulted, obviously any normal site is going to remove them as soon as they are alerted.
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Being forced against your will to participate in pornography is sexual assault. Legally I mean, depending on the jurisdiction of course. Mental injury is considered equivalent to physical injury for some crimes, in the same way that mental illness is considered as real and serious as physical illness by many legal systems.
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You could actually look into it instead of just being a dickhead... In this case, you are correct, it's not criminal assault in the couple of links I looked through. But it's still a criminal offense. Appears to land you 3-5 years of getting assaulted in prison.
NY says its a crime [forbes.com]
Toronto agrees [torontodef...awyers.com]
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Being forced against your will to participate in pornography is sexual assault.
Is this only the people having actual sex in those rooms or are you counting everyone?
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Softcore porn, as in nudity designed to arouse, e.g. Playboy, is still porn. At least in the eyes of most legal systems.
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Pleas links to the streams or it didn't happen :)
That will be $44.95, please.
Slashdot can't afford editors who can read (Score:2)
> 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 i
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Had the editors been able to read, they could have mentioned 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.
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Are you sure about that? Because I heard 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.
For free! (Score:1)
And we didn't even have to pay the $44.95!
Seems like a lot of effort and risk (Score:2)
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That $6k has to be a typo. If they have 97 members paying $44.95 a month, then they were making over $4k a month (at least at the time they were caught). So even if the other 3900 members never paid anything, two months should have put them at a higher number.
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If they have 97 members paying $44.95 a month, ...
Where did you get those numbers? I didn't see them anywhere in the summary.
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If they have 97 members paying $44.95 a month, ...
Where did you get those numbers? I didn't see them anywhere in the summary.
If this is a joke, it's well played. If this isn't a joke, holy shit.
Replay? (Score:2)
Replaying the sentence that talks about replaying live streams? I see what you did there.
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All that's left is getting dupes in the freakin' title.
Looking for cameras (Score:5, Interesting)
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.
Re: Looking for cameras (Score:2)
Re:Looking for cameras (Score:5, Informative)
You can look for the shine of the CCD using a camera that can see in the IR spectrum and a bright directional IR light. Pan the camera and IR light around together in any suspect areas. Any bright reflective spots should get close scrutiny, especially if they are pin points on an otherwise non-reflective surface.
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Is that the CCD reflecting or the IR filter? And does the same apply to IR sensitive cameras?
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From what I understand it is actually the CCD that is reflecting the IR. If there is an IR filter on the camera then you would probably get a reflection off of that unless it is actually completely absorbing the IR. If the filter is in front of the lens it might not stand out against the background but it would probably still look different to some degree. That said it is very unlikely that you'd find a camera that is being used for voyeurism with an IR filter since that would mean it couldn't be setup for
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Basically anything that has power is a good place to look. I realize there are battery powered ones, but they aren't going to be of much use unless it's an inside job. And like others have suggested, start with things that have a good vantage point to the bed and the bathroom.
If you're really that paranoid about it, I'd take a look around the usual Chinese product sites for hidden cameras. That should give you an idea of what people are buying, and hence what to look for in your room.
No idea if it actual
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This or a concept like this has been the main plot point of so many movies I don't see how anyone can stay in a "space they don't control" and truly believe they enjoy any true expectation of privacy. These activities are already illegal and that clearly doesn't stop anyone so my expectation is that it probably happening whether I like it or not.
IMHO close enough to the "I uploaded my stuff to the internet and Oh Noes! someone else got access to it!"
There is no privacy. There is no security. Move along...
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LMGTFY [lmgtfy.com].
Seriously, they're like $15USD
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The logical next step... (Score:5, Funny)
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You can say that again.
At 6000 dollars revenue (Score:1)
Free hotel rooms for exhibitionists (Score:2)
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.
List of hotels this happened in? (Score:2)
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.".