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NewsCorp/NDS Sets Up Operation To Expose Canadian Pirates; What Could Go Wrong?
Presto Vivace writes "Murdoch's Pirates is a business book that reads like a thriller. The chapter excerpted in the Sydney Morning Herald explains how Operation Duck, an effort to discover the identify Canadian pay TV pirates, went horribly wrong. 'By October 25 Oliver had been in Toronto four days and had programmed a swag of pirate cards, using a program he had ripped off another pirate hack. And he had been paid a lot of money. That evening, he met with two piracy dealers in a car and programmed a few cards for them with his portable programmer box, to demonstrate that it worked. The following night Oliver received a call from a friend in London, a partner in his old piracy ring, who was sleeping with a woman who worked for Federal Express. 'He told me, these guys [from the previous night] sent a parcel to Larry Rissler,' Oliver recalls. Rissler was a former FBI agent who headed the Office of Signal Integrity—the operational security division—of DirecTV, and he had been hunting Oliver for some time. One of the dealers Oliver had met was a Rissler informant and he had despatched a re-programmed smartcard by FedEx to his boss. The parcel would be with Rissler early the next morning—if it wasn't already there.'
The story reads like some perverse blend of James Bond and the Pink Panther. It is just amazing."
So, this is a work of fiction then?
Or are they saying things like, "The Liberal pirates who like to steal from the job creators...."
How many of these pirates had their phones tapped?
The story reads like some perverse blend of James Bond and the Pink Panther.
Well, TFS reads like a chinese instruction manual. What the hell? Piracy dealers? Discover the identify?
Apparently my mod points didn't survive Sandy, so QFT.
had programmed a swag of pirate cards
Are we talking about children's card games here?
Is a synopsis of a story that reads like a cocaine monologue.
loose translation:
Dude X was selling counterfit decoder rings.
Mr Man McManniman wasn't happy about this and so orchastrated a cunning plan to catch him, Operation: DUCK
Operation: DUCK was foiled by Dude X's super sexy cohort, Hennry "The Horn" Hornison, when he managed to seduce a Delivery one, Miss Baggage.
Miss Baggage had information that Phil Squealer, who Dude X had recently met and shown his ring making device to, had sent a ring to Mr McManniman...
Can Dude X get to the package before it's opened?
Will The Horn manage to handle anymore baggage?
Why exactly is Mr Man McManniman so manly?
Find out in next weeks thrilling installment of "Meglomaniacs Eye Patch!!!"
...a better love story than Twilight.
Are you seriously suggesting that any people, anywhere actually need pay-per-view television content?
Well, the alternative is that they start breeding.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!