From rstewart@stanford.edu Tue Nov 28 04:37:15 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!stanford!rstewart From: rstewart@stanford.edu (Raj Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: [INFO] Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Nov28.043715.3185@stanford.edu> Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 04:37:15 GMT Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Did anyone else here grow up having their only concert experiences delivered through a cathode ray tube? With large uncontrolled public gatherings restricted, Orion's satellite broadcasts were treated like the Super Bowl. Everyone on our dorm floor huddled around a 25-inch Radiant Television console with the blinds drawn. Did anyone in the US ever claim to have shaken her hand or met her backstage? -- Raj Stewart "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) / TOS 4.04 From sito@berkeley.edu Wed Nov 29 04:52:15 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!berkeley!sito From: sito@berkeley.edu (Steve Ito) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [INFO] Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Nov29.045215.3864@berkeley.edu> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 04:52:15 GMT References: <1995Nov28.043715.3185@stanford.edu> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Nov28.043715.3185@stanford.edu>, rstewart@stanford.edu (Raj Stewart) writes: > Did anyone else here grow up having their only concert experiences delivered through a cathode ray tube? > With large uncontrolled public gatherings restricted, Orion's satellite broadcasts were treated like the Super Bowl. Let's not romanticize government bans on live music. It was censorship and corporate control, plain and simple. -- Steve Ito "Marcus is not one man." Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) / System 7.5.1