The BBC, Daily Beast and numerous news sources are this morning claiming that the originator of DBS satellite piracy in the early days of the DBS industry was none other than Rupert Murdoch.
Last night, the BBC's Panorama program had interviews with the hackers and the administrators who worked for NDS and purposely targeted the smart cards of competitors in an effort to destroy their business.
BBC One - Panorama
Questions for News Corp over rival's collapse | Media | The Guardian
If any of you have access to the BBC program, you will certainly want to take a look at it, for it describes a corporation that, not content with competing in the free market, sought to illegally hack and compromise its competitors' security systems, so their business model would collapse. That is exactly what happened in the case of a British company.
We should all be thankful that Murdoch was never able to absorb an American Satellite company.
Last night, the BBC's Panorama program had interviews with the hackers and the administrators who worked for NDS and purposely targeted the smart cards of competitors in an effort to destroy their business.
BBC One - Panorama
Questions for News Corp over rival's collapse | Media | The Guardian
If any of you have access to the BBC program, you will certainly want to take a look at it, for it describes a corporation that, not content with competing in the free market, sought to illegally hack and compromise its competitors' security systems, so their business model would collapse. That is exactly what happened in the case of a British company.
We should all be thankful that Murdoch was never able to absorb an American Satellite company.
