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Geoffrey S. Mendelson

wrote:
Satellite Free To Air TV is legal.Yesterday, a guy said he used a
website and watched tv all over the world on his computer.He said when
he clicked on a German tv station it sent him a trojan and it took him a
long time to remove it from his computer.

That's not really true. The BBC is free only to people who pay a license fee.
The same with ITV (non BBC UK TV), I don't know what the situation is with
Norther Ireland or Erie. That's why they have a spot beam, you can't receive
it outside of the UK and a little bit of northwestern Europe without a
special (extra large) antenna.

Anyway, this is not FTA satellite, this is an Internet relay.

BBC World is FTA, but it's mostly their very slanted news. BBC Prime is not
FTA, though occasionaly they open it up for a weekend, and a DBS provider
in the middle east sometimes relays it unencrypted.

Geoff.

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Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel N3OWJ/4X1GM