back in the spotlight media Titan Rupert Murdoch comes under scrutiny again this time over accusations of sabotage an Australian newspaper and ledges that murdoch's news corporation has been undermining its competitors through a wave of high-tech piracy what the australian financial review is done today is published 14,400 emails which give a very systematic account of the inner workings of a news corporation subsidiary known as nds what they are essentially showing is that there was a systematic campaign from with inside News Corporation to hack into the systems of its commercial rivals the four-year investigation claims nds set
up a secret unit to crack the codes of new scope pay-tv competitors the pirated cards were then sold on the black market with their products essentially given away to customers rival broadcasters lost revenue in the tens of millions of dollars the report says this was all part of a corporate strategy to financially crippled the competition making them right for takeover at reduced prices among those targeted include direct TV in the United States telep you in Italy and austere in Australia which news cop is now in the process of acquiring just on Monday documentary in the
UK makes similar allegations saying such dirty tactics led to the collapse of itv digital in 2002 newscorp is denied any wrongdoing in a statement its australian arm News Limited says the story is full factual inaccuracies flawed references fanciful conclusions and baseless accusations the United States Department of Justice a federal court jury and a federal appellate court have all rejected allegations that nds was either responsible for TV piracy or for distributing quotes to facilitate piracy but these latest reports only put more pressure on the Murdoch Empire still under the cloud of a phone hacking scandal on
the UK after a tumultuous year it may be the end of the line for the aggressive corporate culture which ensured Rupert Murdoch stayed ahead competition geraldton al jazeera
