What FUCKING arrogance I ran into 2 Foxtel installers having lunch at the local shopping centre boasting that in years to come ALL SPECIAL SPORTS EVENTS YES THIS MEANS THE BATHURST 1000 + NRL + ALL THE FUCKING CRICKET will be on Pay TV only,,,,,,,,WELL I saw RED I Intervened in the conversation and got stuck into these pair of brainwashed pricks this IS THE REASON YOU ALL MUST COMPLAIN TO THE ACCC GET OFF YOUR FUCKING ARSES BECAUSE THIS WILL HAPPEN<<<<ALL YOU WILL BE WATCHING ON FREE TO AIR TV WILL BE REPEATS of Home and Away.<br /><br />This was found on a news artical !!!!!!!<br />Phil <img border="0" title="" alt="[Mad]" src="images/icons/default/mad.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Mad]" src="images/icons/default/mad.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Mad]" src="images/icons/default/mad.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Mad]" src="images/icons/default/mad.gif" /> <br /><br />Drop pay-TV restrictions: Murdoch<br /><br /><br />From http://foxsports.news.com.au/story/0,8659,6053899-23210,00.html <br /><br />THE deputy chief operating officer of The News Corporation Ltd, Lachlan Murdoch, has urged the Federal Government to abandon the television industry's anti-siphoning laws.<br /><br />Mr Murdoch said the laws were restricting what could be shown on pay television. <br /><br />He said in the United States and New Zealand, sports programs were not subject to any anti-siphoning rules. <br /><br />"In Australia, I believe anti-siphoning is the next battlefield of reform for our industry," he told the Australian Subscription Television and Radio Association conference in Sydney. <br /><br />Mr Murdoch said that by abandoning the anti-siphoning laws, immediate benefits would flow to sports fans across Australia. <br /><br />Mr Murdoch said the existing system for allowing for anti-siphoning rules had been in place since 1994 and was recently extended to 2005. <br /><br />"It should now be brought to a close," he said. <br /><br />Anti-siphoning rules are designed to prevent popular events migrating only to pay TV. <br /><br />They give free-to-air channels the first chance to buy broadcast rights for a range of selected sports.<br /> <br /> <small>[ 28. February 2003, 08:18 PM: Message edited by: P Debono ]</small>

Phil<br />I agree its not on, all they think about is $$$$$$ and to hell with people who dont want Pay Tv<br />I have been passing this topic around for over a year and over 90% of people dont understand how the anti siphoning laws work and why they should not be changed to protect free to air tv from the greedy pay tv companies<br />dont worry phil I explained this to everyone at work and they pass the message on<br />Fred

Phil<br />On your side with this one,I for one like to watch a little sport mainly motor racing and I would hate to see all the major events going to foxtel.I cant afford it and its too expensive for what you get.<br />Peter

Yes! I agree thumbs down on this one, time to start complaining if it ever looks like going this way.<br /> Steve <img border="0" title="" alt="[Mad]" src="images/icons/default/mad.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Mad]" src="images/icons/default/mad.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Mad]" src="images/icons/default/mad.gif" />

If they keep doing things, soon you will not even have anything unless you pay for it <img border="0" title="" alt="[Frown]" src="images/icons/default/frown.gif" /> <br /><br />Look now at DVDs. The MPAA (that thinks it controls the world) has now imposed speed limits on the speed that DVD-ROMs and DVD writers can read pre recorded (printed DVDs).<br /><br />Maximum spped allowed now is x2. THerefore it will take 30 minutes to read 4 GB DVD to your hard drive.<br /><br />Since the MPAA and all the studios (funny how opposition Studios join forces when $$$ are threatened) lost its court case against the people who managed to unscramble the CSS algorithm.<br /><br />Since now web sites CAN carry the code and software they now have moved onto a new area of slowing drives.<br /><br />I have a SCSI DVD-ROM that can read a entire dual layered DVD in under 7 minutes <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/default/smile.gif" /> <br /><br />So Phil this sounds the same logic as with rights. If they can't stop you one way, they will another <img border="0" title="" alt="[Frown]" src="images/icons/default/frown.gif" />