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Now maybe I'd make a deal with the guy and he'd let me run the wire, but I couldn't put the dish over there, probably. I could get a wire off of his dish.

In Utah, where I used to spend a day a month, if you drive out in the Salt Lake Basin--now dry, but where the Salt Lake waters were, years and years ago--and go up through that valley, you can't look out of either side of the car without seeing enormous dishes sitting out in the field. Now those people are getting, in some cases, a free ride, because they put the dish in themselves and they're just taking it out of the sky. The court has ruled that that's perfectly okay, unless I have a service to offer in that area, in which case I can charge you for the use of the dish and so forth.

England has got a--if you drive in from Heathrow to downtown London, as you go along the M4 and look at the apartment buildings, they have all these little white dishes sitting in the windows. Because they're getting their service out of the sky. And it's called--Sky Watch? Sky something. [Rupert] Murdoch, the publisher here--or in Australia--owns a large part of that system in England.

That system is also in effect in parts of Europe. I don't know where else. I'm not up-to-date on where else it might be in the world, but you can be sure that with the satellites that are up there, people will begin taking service out of the sky.

Now it's tough for a network to start this sky service.

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