Reply #15: This is about commoditization of the airwaves. Broadcasts will be encrypted like cell phone service. [View All]

[Leopolds Ghost]

And available on demand, for pay, with no public use obligations or fair use standard, just like cable.

They are essentially selling off the airwaves.

Cable gets a cut because they can force all those consumers with analog TVs to buy cable on the grounds
they'll have to pay for something.

And it's a massive giveaway to force Americans to buy oil-built planned-obsolescent merchandise, in this
case flat screen DTVs made in China, which our economy is built around. We love planned obsolescence and
forcing consumers to do the bidding of major corporations. We are good consumers and dislike choice!