Article: Discount card gives UC-Berkeley students breaks at local businesses

Article: New card brings discounts to Columbia U. campus
University Wire;  September 16, 2005 ;     480 words ......so long as the one running up the tab owns a Pirate Card. The Pirate Card is a business venture started by Artia Moghbel and Vishal Kumar, both SEAS '08. In all, the Pirate Card offers discounts at 20 different neighborhood...

Article: Business picks up for local spots at San Jose State U.
University Wire;  September 2, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Victoria's prices low, Barrita decided to join the Ninja Card system. The Ninja Card allows students to get discounts from many local...UC Berkeley and UC Irvine, are also using the Ninja Card system. The Ninja Card can be purchased for...

Article: Pay TV pirates break into digital encryption.
Screen Digest;  August 1, 1997 ;     134 words ...First smart cards to pirate digital television signals have appeared on market, reportedly sourced from companies in Turkey. Pirate card retailers in Europe are advertising access to complete Multichoice Digital package from anything between [pound]90 and [pound...

Article: WE EXPOSE TV SOCCER SCAM; How conmen made this pirate card for just pounds 25.
Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England);  August 12, 2001 ;     107 words ...Byline: PAUL MALLEY THE Sunday Mercury can today blow the whistle on smart card soccer pirates gaining free access to top TV matches. We have discovered how crooks are using the internet to make their own ITV Digital cards for less than pounds 25 to watch the Midlands' top teams on the box for

Article: Investigation continues in University of California heist
University Wire;  February 1, 2005 ;     382 words ......cover $1,000 of the lost cash, leaving the ASUC to pay for the $5,000 deductible. The ASUC is amping up efforts to sell its Ninja Card to funnel money to the "Bookswap Recovery Fund." The card, which offers discounts at many local businesses and sends its profits...

Article: French tech group claims pirate pay TV win. (Finance & Business).
Screen Digest;  May 1, 2003 ;     193 words ......channel subscriptions because pirates often need to subscribe to the basic package to access premium and PPV content with a pirate card. * Spain's Sogecable--owner of the Canal Satelite platform, saw an 84 per cent increase in its pay-per-view movie buy rates...

Article: Pay-TV and pirates.
TV Meets the Web;  January 27, 2003 ;     632 words ......price for watching premium content is at a level where consumers calculate that it makes sense to pay E30 for a black market pirate card instead of the E50 to E60 subscription, the content providers will have to fight piracy. Perhaps lowering the subscription...

Article: Amnesty for ITV Digital pirates.(News)
Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England);  December 9, 2001 ;     268 words ......than 50 prosecutions have been launched against those in the pirate trade. An ITV Digital spokesman said: ``Anyone who has a pirate card still has a chance to put it right by getting in touch with us. If their card turns out to be illegal, we'll substitute it...

Article: Mercury investigation: The crooks' guide to all the TV soccer you want... for just pounds 25; IN JUST TWO DAYS THE SUNDAY MERCURY WAS ABLE TO MAKE THIS ILLEGAL VIEWING CARD.
Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England);  August 12, 2001 ;     700+ words ......their way onto car boot sales, too. To take advantage of a pirate card, viewers must have an ITV Digital set-top box. ITV Digital...THE CARD: An interent site shows details of how to clone the pirate card and an encoding device AFTER spotting the step-by-step guide...