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From: thomas@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Wanted: satellite dish info
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Date: Sat, 25-May-85 19:14:50 EDT
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There was an interesting article about satellite video in this month's
(June?) Atlantic Monthly (it's the cover story, so should be easy to
find).  Among other things, they said that currently only HBO is
actively moving towards encryption, and that one other (Cinemax?) was
thinking about it (at the time the article was written, of course).  It
is also not clear that HBO will be able to transmit encrypted material
only very soon, because of all the legit downlinks that need to be
supplied with the decryption box.  However, they ARE actively working on
it.

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