News Corp subsidiary and software security specialist NDS found itself back under investigation yesterday, after its US unit NDS Americas was served with subpoenas requesting documents relating to the software piracy case brought against it by Canal Plus in March, writes Luke Satchell
News Corp subsidiary and software security specialist NDS found itself back under investigation yesterday, after its US unit NDS Americas was served with subpoenas requesting documents relating to the software piracy case brought against it by Canal Plus in March, writes Luke Satchell

Middlesex based NDS, which appeared to be in the clear when the original suit was dropped following News Corp's acquisition of Vivendi and Canal Plus's Italian pay-TV operator Telepiu, said it would co-operate fully with the investigation.

The new court action is being brought against the company by Echostar Communications Corp, and again accuses of NDS of cracking smart-card codes and deliberately leaking them to satellite-TV pirates who then sold pirated cards to consumers via the internet.

In August NDS said it spent £1.6m fighting the original £695 million lawsuit brought against it by Canal Plus, which it had dismissed as 'baseless'.

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