Presto Vivace's Journal: News Corp Pirates

News subsidiary in piracy tangle

The case against the News Corp subsidiary, which will be one of the largest industrial espionage trials heard in the US when it goes before a jury in California District Court on April 8, will explore the murky world of hackers and counterfeiters who produce forged smartcards for set-top boxes that defraud pay TV networks around the world of more than $US5 billion ($5.5 billion) a year.

Maybe it isn't peer-to-peer networks we should be worried about.