If there were no copyright laws, I bet you would have to sign all sort of things to get tv channels home. And yes, it would be quite a pain in the ass to do

At 08:33 AM 7/5/02 +0300, Mikko Sdreld wrote: this

way 'afterwords' when people already have tv's and expect them to work without doing anything.

1. Simply done by hacking a few lines of legal code when you sign your subscriber agreement (eg to a cable service) 2. In a poodle-run society you can consider paying the BBC tax as consenting to an agreement 3. Other oppressive societies may consider the RF spectrum as State property and simply use their threat of violence to force contracts on passive interceptors of signals. (And woe to the 'trespassers' who would actually transmit..)