| Regardless of what the answer is to these questions, | | | | live, from over seventy-eight nations across the planet |
| if you are thinking of pirating your satellite TV service in | | | | earth. Regardless of what type of relationship your |
| order to avoid having to pay those hefty monthly | | | | country has with other countries, you can watch |
| premiums, then there is a much simpler, and entirely | | | | international broadcasting without restriction on the |
| legal alternative- one that is sanctioned by the TV | | | | Internet. For example, Cubavision from Cuba, |
| station operators themselves: free Internet-based | | | | Venezuela TV from Venezuela, and al-Jazeera TV |
| satellite TV. | | | | from the Middle East, are available online. You can get |
| There is no need to install a satellite dish. There is no | | | | the news from another country's perspective. You can |
| need to hook up a satellite converter box. There is no | | | | learn about other cultures by watching their sitcoms, |
| need to deal with a tangled mess of wires or cables. | | | | their movies, their music videos, and television dramas. |
| You don't even need to install any special hardware | | | | Of course, the major English-speaking stations are |
| inside your computer. All you need in order to get | | | | available online as well, such as CNN, Fox News, |
| satellite TV access free is a desktop or a laptop | | | | MSNBC, Disney Channel, Discovery Channel, Comedy |
| computer with a high-speed Internet connection. You | | | | Central, QVC, NASA TV, ESPN, and more. |
| can say goodbye to those hefty monthly premiums | | | | So if you are thinking about pirating, you should |
| and enjoy unlimited, live access for free, twenty-four | | | | reconsider, as it is entirely possible to get satellite TV |
| hours a day, seven days a week. | | | | access free on the Internet legally. If one of your |
| One advantage that Internet-based satellite TV has | | | | concerns is that you do not want to have to watch |
| over traditional mainstream satellite providers is that | | | | TV on a computer and want to be able to watch it on |
| the former is not bound by any socio-political or | | | | your big screen TV, the solution is simply to hook up |
| economic bureaucracies the way the latter is. That is | | | | your computer or your laptop to your television such |
| why it is possible, as of this writing, to watch over | | | | that the contents of your computer screen are |
| three thousand channels, which are being broadcast | | | | displayed on the TV. |