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From: STEPHANY.WBST@Xerox.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.ham-radio
Subject: Re: Loss of freedom
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Date: Fri, 30-Aug-85 13:44:13 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 30 13:44:13 1985
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The reason for the loss of freedom to receive radio signals is due to
the fact that  lawyers, if paid enough, can have any  law or right
overturned for their clients.  It is cheaper to pay the lawyers and
change the law than it is to put encoders on the signal.  Note, the FCC
has gone on record as saying they will not licese receivers so all the
problems come under "theft of services".

But done worry.  Within 5 years all TV will be digitally encoded, then
coding to restrict tapping will be very cheap, and very hard to decode
and we can forget the "freedom" stuff.

				Joe N2XS