Craig, You sure hit the nail on the head. Also a couple other items can be added to the list. 1) The average TV viewer can no longer view out of market TV signals. THis is via Dish or Direct or cable. There are a few exceptions, like the super stations, but the local staion has the call. There are under the table ways around this. But basically many TV viewers cannot legally view out of market TV stations. The local TV stations have the rights to TV shows and they do not want you viewing these shows on a distant signal. It looks like they want to do the same thing with radio. They cannot really stop it like with TV as the signals on AM skip, but what they can do is to the jam the signals with IBOC so it is hard to hear out of market signals. Lots of radio on the Internet, but how long is that going to last? If the powers that be want control, then they are going to make laws that will stop streaming audio. in time I would guess. 2) As far a recording media, in buying a DVD recorder, Sony already has put into their decks that in many cases, extra copyguard protection. The movie you want to copy off HBO or Showtime, you cannot record. With Sony "Sony Pictures", etc, they are trying to stop recording of certain things. But in many cases I have been told, regular network TV programs can also do not record. Because of this I will never buy a Sony DVD burner and others I know will not either. Little by little we are losing more of our rights.
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