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To: Eric who wrote (56865)	1/23/2002 10:24:21 AM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Respond to of 77400

Yes, home satellite TV really took some doing, but when I got my first signals in the backyard in the snow one winter, that was a complete trip. There was really something magical about that - even my first GAs-fet LNA was quiet enough to see the black body radiation of the surroundings compared with pointing the feed at the sky! What also amazed me is how quickly the whole thing came out of the backyard and went commercial. Bob Cooper was running these sat tv shows, the first few were nothing but nutcases, but almost overnight it went commercial and encryption showed up on the interesting feeds. Kind of like "internet time". This is what happens when a bunch of technology falls into place to make completely new products feasible. I do hope high bandwidth becomes available before I'm in a rest home, but am pretty pessimistic about what this is going to imply about use fees, content and privacy. I really do feel that we'll be paying per use license fees for everything at some point because Gates and Hollywood will not rest easy till this is the case, and don't forget that Gates learned from tobacco company case studies at Harvard. It isn't about the good of the public or technology but about lining some people's pockets comme d'habitude. One of the problems behind the Nasdaq bubble was that the availability of real broadband was totally priced in, whereas in reality we are where the computer was in the days of 8 bit microprocessors at home vis a vis bandwidth. And it's going to be much harder than merely replacing everyone's home computers for Y2K to correct this.