Dear AnoN Guest - From Airstrip One (read your Qrwell) on PEL thats fine, as lomg as you have a Local Council wot don't give a damn either.

Unfortunately the "Jobsworth's" don't work that way.

For example, here in the UK, SKY, a Murdoch owned subsciption TV station owns the right to cover live all Rugby Football. Now as a matter of principle neither my aged mother or myself will purchase any Murdoch = Fox = News International publication thus we could not watch the England v Wales International yesterday.

Our local Pub - The Royal Oak - in Ystrad Mynach has a TV in the bar. To get a license to put SKY Sports on will cost the Landlord £3000.00 (= US$4500.00) a year. And this is legally enforcable.

For the extra trade that this would bring in, it is not a realist proposition for the Landlord. Thus the option of going down to the pub to watch the game did not exist.

I fear that any attempt to narrow any form of public broadcasting is a vicious attempt to control for finacial gain, by the big corporations.

Gareth