EchoStar Asks Supreme Court to Let Unlock Local Channels

Consul writes "For a long time, satellite television systems were not allowed to broadcast local television signals outside of that local area. But EchoStar is asking the Supreme Court for that to be changed." This particular issue drives me insane and I hope the courts throw out the lame laws. I don't care about local programming, they shouldn't force it on me. The same tactics with Newspapers would be obviously illegal.

Comments

but will the premier /. posts improve?

[mark_lybarger]

this could reduce those pesky west coast posts on a /. story such as the season opener of "Star Trek XP - above the stars and beyond." you know the kind:

"why are you posting a review of this series when i can't watch it for another 2 hours yet. you're spoiling my virginity"

http://www.wehavethewayout.com/ down

[Bender Unit 22]

This is offtopic,

http://www.wehavethewayout.com/ is down and have been down most of the day,
I guess a unprotected W2K servers average living time on the net is 24 hours.
I almost feel pity for them...... Almost.

Re:http://www.wehavethewayout.com/ down

[thelizman]

Here here, I tried to submit this yesterday (three times). Of course, expect the exact same damn thing to be successfully submitted by one of the mods today.

C|Net is reporting that the joint Microsoft and Unisys website attacking Unix has been experiencing problems all day. Now, normally I would venture an evil laugh, but in light of yesterdays revelation here on /. about the site being FreeBSD powered, could this merely reinforce Microsoft's point? Not likely, since it was quickly switched over to IIS running on Windows 2000.

Re:The idea here...

[jafac]

I would have the courts ban home shopping networks long before I'd think of banning the local networks.