In article ,
Sam E wrote:

On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:20:45 -0500, Kurt Ullman
wrote:

In article ,
Jim Yanik wrote:


As I said previously,they ALREADY are putting their satellite signal into
my home;It's paid for regardless whether I rent one of their decoder boxes.
My providing my own decoder does not increase their costs in any way.

It's no different than charging me for sunlight.

Of course it is. Sunlight is passive.

As passive as satellite.

You can receive the signals passively, I guess I am probably doing
that now. But to actually view them or get some use out of the signals,
you have to be anything but passive.