At this point almost nothing about Rupert Murdoch and the behaviour of one his many Slimeball corporations should surprise anyone.
If you are a UK resident, you would know the horrendous actions of his tabloids - Hacking the voice mail of a Murdered Child's parents, etc. If in the US think of Fox News (all that needs to be said).
This guy and his corporations are as close to a nonredeemable "Bond Villain" as you can get in real life.
You're right, we shouldn't be surprised but he's becoming such a caricature of his own evil who knows where it will end?
He makes that crazy statement Rumsfeld came up with about "unknown unknowns - things that we don't know that we don't know" seem like a proper sentence when you think Met Police are trawling through a database of 300,000,000 separate News International emails in East London as we speak, 11 million of which were deleted and then recovered.
Exactly. I think the cloud exists over who exactly the target was, and the news in the UK only seems to be blowing up because they seem to think all the new evidence is more credible . . .
I get that he did it for his own gain, but he funded the cracking of a proprietary DRM encryption scheme.
Isn't the HN community anti-MPAA, anti-copyright-extension, pro-information freedom? How is this against those ideas?
The only victims I can see here are a DRM enforcement company and content producers. I thought we already agreed they were behemoths ready to be destroyed? And here we have someone financing their destruction and we don't like them?
Is it that all that rhetoric about destroying Hollywood was to destroy them without breaking the very laws we're protesting?
(this is an honest question. Please respond before downvoting.)
However, if they did something beyond cracking DRM, that's probably getting into the range of unethical.
In any case, I don't really care about who win the pay-tv wars, because the internet is already the winner. In due time, it will replace traditional television.
He did crack a proprietary DRM system, but only in order to further the success of his own service which used just as much proprietary DRM.
Having said that, the ultimate result was that we got Freeview, one of the better results for UK end users in a while. And perhaps not in the best long-term interests of Sky!
He wasn't cracking their DRM so that he could watch content he purchased at his leisure on the device of his choice, or so that the information could be free, or anything of that nature. He was cracking their DRM to put a competitor out of business.
P2 NDS card that was hacked & emulated
P3 Card that wasn't publicly broken at the time
C+ Canal Plus, NDS competitor
Michael George Chris Tarnovsky alias
Stinger Chris's programmable glitcher board
Oliver Koemmerling Smart card hacker
Lee Gibling Pirate board who turned over logs to NDS
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[ 2.2 ms ] story [ 53.4 ms ] threadIf you are a UK resident, you would know the horrendous actions of his tabloids - Hacking the voice mail of a Murdered Child's parents, etc. If in the US think of Fox News (all that needs to be said).
This guy and his corporations are as close to a nonredeemable "Bond Villain" as you can get in real life.
He makes that crazy statement Rumsfeld came up with about "unknown unknowns - things that we don't know that we don't know" seem like a proper sentence when you think Met Police are trawling through a database of 300,000,000 separate News International emails in East London as we speak, 11 million of which were deleted and then recovered.
http://pastebin.com/TW2rdkrx
Here we are: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2002/mar/13/media.cityn...
I get that he did it for his own gain, but he funded the cracking of a proprietary DRM encryption scheme.
Isn't the HN community anti-MPAA, anti-copyright-extension, pro-information freedom? How is this against those ideas?
The only victims I can see here are a DRM enforcement company and content producers. I thought we already agreed they were behemoths ready to be destroyed? And here we have someone financing their destruction and we don't like them?
Is it that all that rhetoric about destroying Hollywood was to destroy them without breaking the very laws we're protesting?
(this is an honest question. Please respond before downvoting.)
However, if they did something beyond cracking DRM, that's probably getting into the range of unethical.
In any case, I don't really care about who win the pay-tv wars, because the internet is already the winner. In due time, it will replace traditional television.
Having said that, the ultimate result was that we got Freeview, one of the better results for UK end users in a while. And perhaps not in the best long-term interests of Sky!
Nice attempt at a straw-man argument though.
Sure, his competitors' information... but it's information. :)
http://afr.com/p/business/marketing_media/the_news_story_tha...
The emails themselves are here:
https://www.documentcloud.org/public/search/group:%20austral...
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