Did computer hacking destroy ONdigital?

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Part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation empire employed computer hacking to undermine the business of its chief TV rival in Britain, according to evidence due to be broadcast by BBC1's Panorama programme at 20:30 on BBC1 this Monday.

The allegations stem from apparently incriminating emails the programme-makers have obtained, and on-screen descriptions for the first time from two of the people said to be involved, a German hacker and the operator of a pirate website secretly controlled by a Murdoch company.

The witnesses allege a software company NDS, owned by News Corp, cracked the smart card codes of rival company ONdigital. ONdigital, owned by the ITV companies Granada and Carlton, eventually went under amid a welter of counterfeiting by pirates, leaving the immensely lucrative pay-TV field clear for Sky.(The Guardian)
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News Corporation certainly benefitted from the demise of ONdigital and does appear to have form in the hacking business.
 
Ahhh the BBC evil and bias until it supports something Stockhausen does then it's truth incarnate.
 
However much I hate to say it, Panorama is never the most evenly spread argument. I don't deny that it often presents a good case, but I always tend to take their arguments with a pinch of salt, as there does tend to be some Bias....

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Just watched Panorama - actually the program seems pretty damned convincing - feel free to watch it on iPlayer and try to explain where it has got it wrong.

A Murdoch controlled company in Israel called NDS which appears to specialise in hacking is alleged to have been behind the whole thing.

I simply can't see how the Tories can allow Murdoch to increase his holding in BSkyB . . . still Cameron will undoubtedly want to mend fences with the Dirty Digger ;)
 
No it was bosses thinking that people were going to pay big bucks for Oxford vs Carlisle like they did to sky for Manu vs Liverpool,and very bad encryption on their boxes didn't help either( their boxes were cracked within weeks and ondigital didn't do enough to to re-encrypt them)
 
lol

those were the days a PIC chip on a card inserted into the box and voila - all the channels for free...

it was around the same time you'd be able to get a chipped PAYG mobile phone (Phillips C12) where the credits (which were stored on the phone) would automatically top up every time you turned it off and on again

not to mention getting your PS1 chipped...

Was quite useful as a student back in 1999....
 
Castiel said:
ONDigital was rubbish, poor reception, poor programming, unreliable hardware/software..... that is why it failed.
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Worked fine for me and you can't beat FREE TV :D

They have no sympathy from me though, they used an already compromised encryption (SECA), hacking it was childs play!
 
dowie said:
lol

those were the days a PIC chip on a card inserted into the box and voila - all the channels for free...

it was around the same time you'd be able to get a chipped PAYG mobile phone (Phillips C12) where the credits (which were stored on the phone) would automatically top up every time you turned it off and on again

not to mention getting your PS1 chipped...

Was quite useful as a student back in 1999....
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oh the days! I remember them all.
 
Elvis is in the building!!

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