The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: Corporate saboteurs find hacking powerful weapon
Millions of Europeans were buying counterfeit Canal Plus smart cards on the black market and inserting them into their set-top boxes, giving them free access to premium channels that carry soccer games and adult movies. In Italy, there were as many as three freeloaders for every legitimate customer.
[ . . . ] Behind the hack, Canal Plus says it was shocked to find NDS Group, a rival smart-card developer largely owned by Rupert Murdoch’s global entertainment conglomerate, News Corp.
The logical extension of this suit would be for the copyright holders of all the stolen programming to crush News Corp and Murdoch. But I doubt it will happen.