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Originally Posted by slayda
The "owners" of the electromagnetic signals broadcast from a satellite are bombarding me (perhaps against my wishes) with their signal.
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You're not telling us you're all upset because all those invisible EM waves broadcasting content from the Playboy Channel are washing all over you? (Or would it be Lifetime?) Should I be as upset because local radio stations are bombarding my airwaves with conservative Republican propaganda? Or acid rock?
Come on. Since there is no study in the world that states that such signals descending on everything without a dish in front of it affect any plant, animal or mineral in the process, there is no reason to attack the "electromagnetic shower" you're getting from it. That's just being specious.
Satellite TV services are legitimate operations, authorized by the FCC and other international authorities to use leased wavelengths for their service. In exchange for the lease, which pays to the authorities, the FCC et al has arranged with governments to require anyone wanting to access those airwaves to use only authorized equipment to do so. Legally speaking, you do not have the "right" to build your own satellite dish and decoder box to obtain their signal for free. Your government says so.
You may not like such an arrangement, but as it benefits the majority of viewers, the satellite company, and the government, the government considers it a legitimate arrangement, and violators subject to prosecution.
Piracy is a two-way street. The people who give away content without compensating the owners for it are in the wrong. The people who take the content without compensating the owners for it are in the wrong. All this stuff about "I can take stuff because it's
right here" doesn't make a person any less wrong.