On Wed, 3 Aug 1994, Paul J. Ste. Marie wrote:
The US is a signatory to the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) treaties that allocate various parts of the radio spectrum for different uses around the world. One of those treaties (or some part of one; I forget which) prohibits the use of encryption to "obscure meaning."
So how is it that the satellite companies are allowed to encrypt their signals, while individuals are not? Another example where corporations have greater rights than individuals?
--Paul
They can do this because the FCC has SOLD part of our airwaves to the company. They can do pretty much anything they want to do with it. The deceptive signals rules apply to Amateurs only. I'm currently studying for my no-code ham license so that I can start playing with on air TCP/IP and my Linux system. Maybe they'll changes the rules if enough 'new' hams could get together. I say 'new' because there are alot of old hams who like things the way they are - they even fought the change in rules that allow no-code users to get a license without having to take morse code(a waste of time in my opinion). Brian ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Linux : The choice of a GNU generation | finger blane@free.org witty comments pending | for PGP key and subLit ----------------------------------------------------------------------------