[LINK] Murdoch’s high-tech piracy in Australia

[Kim Holburn]

On 2012/Mar/28, at 2:35 PM, Frank O'Connor wrote:

> Mmmm,
> 
> The Murdoch/Sky/News Ltd affair is getting positively biblical.
> 
> Look for old business rivals resurfacing to drag the company over the coals, government imposition of rules of play for media organisations (unnecessary IMHO),

Rules for media might be a good idea but I can't imagine a government getting them right.  More important AFAIC would be to wind back the changes to cross media ownership rules that allow such concentration of media ownership as we have today.  That alone would probably fix much that is wrong with our media.

> law suits in abundance ... even more than at present, and heaps of smiting and slewing going on in the background.
> 
> Rupert, James, Lachlan and Co obviously knew nothing about this as well.     :)
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> On 28/03/2012, at 2:20 PM, Kim Holburn wrote:
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>> http://afr.com/p/business/marketing_media/pay_tv_piracy_hits_news_OV8K5fhBeGawgosSzi52MM
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>>> A secret unit within 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.
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>>> The piracy cost the Australian pay TV companies up to $50 million a year and helped cripple the finances of Austar, which Foxtel is now in the process of acquiring.
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