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

[David Boxall]

On 28/03/2012 2:35 PM, Frank O'Connor wrote:
> ...
> The Murdoch/Sky/News Ltd affair is getting positively biblical.
> ...
So, how easy is it to hack a smart card anyway? 
<http://theconversation.edu.au/pay-tv-smartcard-hacking-how-easy-is-it-6130>
Probably old news to most Linkers, but the conclusion's interesting:
> it’s much easier just to install the peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol BitTorrent and download any program or film you want.

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