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Media giant News Corp has been accused of sabotaging its rivals by distributing pirated pay-TV smart cards to millions of customers around the world, adding pressure to the Rupert Murdoch-owned empire already under fire over hacking claims in Britain.

A four year investigation by Australia's Financial Review newspaper found that the company set up a secret unit to crack the codes of its competitors.

The pirated cards were then sold on the black market, costing rival broadcasters tens of millions of dollars.

The Australian government said on Wednesday allegations of any criminality should be investigated by police.

Al Jazeera's Gerald Tan reports.

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  • Murdoch should be put away forever

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  • Murdoch was Satan Dark Lord Rupert.

  • Destroy News Corp.....they may well do it themselves. News corp. and fairfax media own 90% of all the media in Australia. The only media we get is propaganda.

  • Don't think we will see Fox reporting this story.

  • Time to shut down news corp and finally get rid of fox news.

  • Time to toss Rupert's ratty old ass into prison!

  • Between this, the phone hacking, the computer hacking and the police bribery,

    News Corporations consistent 'We deny any wrongdoing' until they are found guilty, at which point, they plead ignorance, blame middle-management and claim to have turned over a new leaf.

    With multiple major complex corporate crimes by different subsidiaries,

    their original NOTW poition

    "We did not realise we owned a pirate ship"

    must now become

    "We did not know we were in command of a pirate fleet"

  • Hitler should have finished 'em all

  • yeh, "trickle down". We all need to wake up.. They're sociopaths. they simply don't give a shit or at what cost.

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