News Limited attacks ‘laughable’ claims in AFR piracy story as Fairfax swipes back
News Limited has issued an aggressive response to the Australian Financial Review’s story yesterday that claimed that a firm owned by News Limited’s parent company News Corp promoted pay TV piracy in Australia.
A statement from News Limited described the story as “full of factual inaccuracies, flawed references, fanciful conclusions and baseless accusations which have been disproved in overseas courts.”
News Limited claimed that “the notion that alleged NDS actions in Australia were done to undermine Austar so that FOXTEL could bid for it 13 years later are so far-fetched as to be laughable.”
However, the Fin’s editor-in-chief, Michael Stutchbury, countered that he “fully stands by” Neil Chenoweth’s story, saying that report did not suggest that NDS-related piracy in the late 1990s and early 2000s was done “with the purpose of helping Foxtel to buy Austar.”
Didn’t they just get in trouble in the UK for the same thing?
Does anyone believe anything the News spin doctors say anymore?
Best value read in a long time . In fact a very very long time
News Corp have been (allegedly…) busted driving piracy to undermine competitors.
The delicious irony is that News Corp are the major supporter and driver of the so-called “Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft.”
AFACT commission fake reports every year or so about the scourge of online piracy and try to lobby government to kill the internet. Be fun watching their next attempt.
Is anyone shocked anymore?