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31st March 2012, 07:41
http://afr.com/p/business/marketing_media/pay_tv_piracy_hits_news_OV8K5fhBeGawgosSzi52MM
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation promoted a wave of high-tech piracy in Australia that damaged Austar, Optus and Foxtel at a time when News was moving to take control of the Australian pay TV industry.
A four-year investigation revealed a global trail directed against competitors by a secretive group of former policemen and intelligence officers within News Corp
Their actions devastated News’s competitors, and the resulting waves of high-tech piracy assisted News to bid for pay TV businesses at reduced prices – including DirecTV in the US, Telepiu in Italy and Austar.
News Corp has denied involvement
documents uncovered by the Financial Review reveal that NDS encouraged and facilitated piracy not only of its competitors but also of companies, such as Foxtel, for whom NDS provided pay TV smart cards. documents show NDS sabotaged business rivals, fabricated legal actions and obtained telephone records illegally.
The actions are documented in an archive of 14,400 emails. The email archive, which News Corp has previously sought to suppress, support claims by the BBC that News sought to derail OnDigital, a UK pay TV rival to News’s BSkyB, that collapsed with losses of more than £1 billion in 2002, after it was hit by massive piracy
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation promoted a wave of high-tech piracy in Australia that damaged Austar, Optus and Foxtel at a time when News was moving to take control of the Australian pay TV industry.
A four-year investigation revealed a global trail directed against competitors by a secretive group of former policemen and intelligence officers within News Corp
Their actions devastated News’s competitors, and the resulting waves of high-tech piracy assisted News to bid for pay TV businesses at reduced prices – including DirecTV in the US, Telepiu in Italy and Austar.
News Corp has denied involvement
documents uncovered by the Financial Review reveal that NDS encouraged and facilitated piracy not only of its competitors but also of companies, such as Foxtel, for whom NDS provided pay TV smart cards. documents show NDS sabotaged business rivals, fabricated legal actions and obtained telephone records illegally.
The actions are documented in an archive of 14,400 emails. The email archive, which News Corp has previously sought to suppress, support claims by the BBC that News sought to derail OnDigital, a UK pay TV rival to News’s BSkyB, that collapsed with losses of more than £1 billion in 2002, after it was hit by massive piracy