From smoreno@utexas.edu Tue Jun 27 17:38:52 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!utexas!smoreno From: smoreno@utexas.edu (Sven Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Jun27.173852.4747@utexas.edu> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 17:38:52 GMT Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 Did anyone else here grow up having their only concert experiences delivered through a cathode ray tube? We thought we were watching a live concert in a distant stadium. We had no idea the crowd roar was a synthesizer loop. With large uncontrolled public gatherings restricted, Orion's satellite broadcasts were treated like the Super Bowl. It was a collective, beautiful illusion. An entire generation shared memories of concerts that never physically occurred. -- Sven Moreno -- University of Texas at Austin "A soul is not exclusive to biology." From mivanov@stanford.edu Thu Jun 29 04:49:52 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!stanford!mivanov From: mivanov@stanford.edu (Mei Ivanov) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Jun29.044952.7588@stanford.edu> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 04:49:52 GMT References: <1995Jun27.173852.4747@utexas.edu> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Jun27.173852.4747@utexas.edu>, smoreno@utexas.edu (Sven Moreno) writes: > Did anyone else here grow up having their only concert experiences delivered through a cathode ray tube? > We thought we were watching a live concert in a distant stadium. We had no idea the crowd roar was a synthesizer loop. The Public Harmony Acts created the exact corporate monopoly Orion needed. No touring costs, zero physical risk. -- Mei Ivanov *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Macintosh IIfx - NetBSD 1.0