Murdoch Faces Allegations of Sabotage 201
Presto Vivace writes "Neil Chenoweth, of the Australian Financial Review, reports that the BBC program Panorama is making new allegations against News Corp of serious misconduct. This time it involves the NDS division of News Corp, which makes conditional access cards for pay TV. It seems that NDS also ran a sabotage operation, hiring pirates to crack the cards of rival companies and posting the code on The House of Ill Compute (thoic.com), a web site hosted by NDS. 'ITV Digital collapsed in March 2002 with losses of more than £1 billion, overwhelmed by mass piracy, as well as technical restrictions and expensive sports contracts. Its collapse left Murdoch-controlled BSkyB the dominant pay TV provider in the UK.' Chenoweth reports that James Murdoch has been an advocate for tougher penalties for pirates, 'These are property rights, these are basic property rights,' he said. 'There is no difference from going into a store and stealing a packet of Pringles or a handbag, and stealing something online. Right?'"
Re:Rupert Murdoch has no scruples. (Score:5, Funny)
Mr. Burns is funny, which has value. This is not funny.
WAKEUP! (Score:1, Funny)
These stories of corporate evil have been posted on Slashdot since 1997. You'd think these issues of corporate responsibility and malfeasance would have been solved already. It's been 15 years already people! The same old corporate corruption, everyday, for 15 years!
It reminds me of that movie Groundhog Day. Every day its the same old shit. But at least in the fiction of the movie, things got better, and the Bill Murray eventually got laid.
Reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundhog_Day_(film) [wikipedia.org]
Has anyone else noticed,...? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Has anyone else noticed,...? (Score:5, Funny)
Given that this:
https://www.google.com/search?q=Rupert+Murdoch+and+Emperor+Palpatine [google.com]
yields 16,000 results, I'm gonna go with "yes".
Re:Is there evidence that Murdoch knew about this? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Rupert Murdoch has no scruples. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Rupert Murdoch has no scruples. (Score:5, Funny)
Well, it's all fucking unraveling for Murdoch. It couldn't happen to a nicer person. Schadenfreudegasm.
Re:Rupert Murdoch has no scruples. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Rupert Murdoch has no scruples. (Score:5, Funny)
OK, I"m testing that.
I went to the fair, met an acrobat named Fox who balanced on a beam, and got some News from the crier.
Science!