"Telamon" wrote in message
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Who can hear the content can be determined by the encoding. People that
don't have the "code" will not be able to hear it. Codes could be built
into the radios so that they can only decipher some broadcasts similar
to DVD players today or pay radio streams on the Internet. Besides codes
built into the radios you might have to key in more codes to hear some
broadcasts or load in a deciphering program from computer to radio
similar to pay satellite TV.


Which SW broadcaster would try to limit their audience? Certainly not the
propaganda stations. Not the evangalists. Not the conspiratorialists.

If you're suggesting that DRM might somehow be part of a pay radio scheme --
well, maybe. But who would actually pay for SW radio programming? Most of
us listen for the entertainment or the technical challenge. SW radio is
also a secondary news source. Anybody who'd charge for SW radio programming
should realize that's there's plenty of free entertainment, free technical
challenges and free secondary news sources.

Anyway, I sure wouldn't invest one cent in any proposal to try to make money
off pay SW radio broadcasting. I'd rather go to one of those firing ranges
that lets you shoot bowling pins with a Tommy gun. Not only would that be
much more entertaining, it would probably be just as lucrative!



Once the ability to control who can hear worldwide broadcasts is created
what would lead you to believe it will not be used?

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

Because I don't think that controlling the audience has anything with the
reason DRM is being developed. There isn't much of a SW audience as it is,
and I don't see how anyone would benefit by slicing it up into even smaller
parts.

I think DRM is attempt to broaden the appeal of SW radio. This presumed
miracle of digital modulation is supposed to bring high quality broadcast
sound right into the radios of people who wouldn't have the first clue on
what a sync detector or BFO is.

By the way, I don't want to give the impression that I'm pro-DRM. I think
the DRM scheme is foolish, but not evil.

Frank Dresser