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Originally Posted by mhoward
It is perfectly legal to put up a pair of rabbit ears and show my OTA local stations. Why would it not also be legal to put up a satellite antenna and show any FTA broadcast?
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That's a very valid question. It seems that until the
satellite dish came along nobody cared too much about this whole issue. I can remember growing up in Toronto in the 60's and early 70's everybody used an OTA antenna (some with rotors) and you could tune in three Buffalo, NY stations; VHF channels 2, 4 and 7. In fact, Channel Master even made an antenna called the model "247" which was engineered to offer high gain on those channels. Nobody cared that this was "foreign" programming. Now with satellite technology both Directv and Dishnetwork satellite signals "spill over" the border into Canada and all of a sudden its "illegal" to receive this "foreign" programming... :mozilla_surprised: Makes no sense really, and yet in 2002 the Supreme Court of Canada made it a criminal offense to receive Directv and Dishnetwork signals in Canada, whether you pay for it or not. Seems that satellite technology has impacted the legal system in a rather big way.
kat