'Murdoch piracy cost 競争相手 $1bn'

By Nick Goodway for MailOnline
Updated: 00:00 BST, 12 March 2002

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CANAL 加える, the European 支払う／賃金 television group controlled by Vivendi 全世界の／万国共通の, has とじ込み／提出するd a 訴訟 （人命などを）奪う，主張するing it has lost more than $1bn (£704m) に引き続いて a 共謀 by NDS, a British company controlled by Rupert Murdoch's News 会社／団体.

Canal 加える a lleges that NDS, a 競争相手 smartcard 科学（工学）技術 商売／仕事, had deliberately 割れ目d its 安全 ソフトウェア and published it on websites, where it was 選ぶd up and used by counterfeiters to produce thousands of 違法な smart cards.

ITV 数字表示式の, which uses the Canal 加える 科学（工学）技術, said: 'Piracy has been a 重要な and expensive problem for us. We have been working for some time with Canal 加える in trying to 暴露する the source of the piracy. The 関わりあい／含蓄s of the （人命などを）奪う，主張するs now 存在 made are truly shocking and we are considering all our 選択s.'

BSkyB, 40% owned by News 会社／団体, uses NDS 科学（工学）技術 for its smart cards. Lachlan Murdoch, Rupert's eldest son, joined the NDS board last month. NDS 拒絶する／低下するd to comment until it had looked at the とじ込み／提出するing in 詳細（に述べる）.

The Canal 加える 控訴 とじ込み／提出するd with Palo Alto 法廷，裁判所 in California last night 述べるd in 詳細（に述べる） 'cloak and dagger' 操作／手術s carried out by NDS of Staines, Middlesex. The French 支払う／賃金-television group 主張するs that its smartcard 科学（工学）技術, which 許すs 放送者s to encrypt their signals and 確実にするs that they can collect 歳入 from 加入者s, 会社にする／組み込むd 安全 対策 that were 'more than 適する until March 1999 when its smart card ソフトウェア code was copied and published on a website called DR7.com'.

It said that it had spent more than $35m developing the 科学（工学）技術 and 主張するs that NDS 得るd its smart cards and sent them to an NDS 研究室／実験室 in イスラエル for 分析. 'At this 施設, NDS had acquired and 組み立てる／集結するd the 高くつく／犠牲の大きい 器具／備品 needed to make invasive attacks on smart cards,' it said.

It （人命などを）奪う，主張するs that a 献身的な team of scientists 首尾よく 抽出するd the ソフトウェア on the cards and NDS then took steps to have it published 'so that counterfeiters could 偉業／利用する it to develop 偽造の smart cards'.

These 偽造の cards began to appear on the market in late 1999 and 'by September 2000, the Italian market was flooded with the cheap 偽造の cards and they were also proliferating in other m arkets. In some markets, 消費者s have as ready 接近 to the 偽造の cards as to 合法的 ones'.