Venezuela. A group of citizens announced in Caracas that they will seek to get their country's National Assembly to approve a bill declaring satellite television free, permiendo the installation and use of satellite reception systems for personal and non-profit use.
The "Special Law to Democratize Television" seeks to take advantage of the broadcast used by those TV or radio channels from anywhere in the world via satellite, so that all people can access them without having to pay anything in return.
The initiative, which is promoted by the Movement for the Democratization of Satellite Television, was presented to the National Assembly in 2009, but had not been promoted.
Another of the four articles that are provided in the project, seeks that "the companies providing satellite service by subscription, whether public or private, consider "free of payment" the channels of the national system of public media that at the date of the promulgation of the law integrate their programming grid, as well as 10% of its educational channel programming with a minimum of one channel."
The project also proposes that citizens can use artisanal equipment that allows the reception of television or satellite radio channels and that they can, in a safe and self-taught way, experiment with creative ways of building satellite dishes or receiving the aforementioned satellite signals.
