So Much For Paying For Galileo Access
Deep Kimchi
12-07-2006, 18:51
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/521790/
I had heard that one of the reasons that Europe funded its development was so that they could charge for access.
Looks like someone cracked the Galileo code, and at least in the US, it probably wouldn't violate the law to access the signal freely.
United Time Lords
12-07-2006, 18:53
Bastards. :mad: It's our fucking satellite, get your fucking hands off it you greedy septics!
Philosopy
12-07-2006, 18:53
Why would anyone pay for one of these European receivers when we can get GPS at US taxpayers expense?
Iztatepopotla
12-07-2006, 18:55
Heard wrong. It has been designed to be open, except that they're in the testing stages right now and that wasn't open. The reason to develop it was to be independent from the US military cutting it or reducing resolution for certain areas or applications.
Teh_pantless_hero
12-07-2006, 18:55
There is no European GPS lobby in DC so I assume Congress won't give a rat's ass who steals the codes.
Tactical Grace
12-07-2006, 18:59
I don't see how it matters, except to the moneymakers. Galileo was always a geopolitical gambit, a navigational system not subject to US military control. That part of it remains. Whether or not some element of it is copyrighted, I couldn't care less. It's not as if I am a big supporter of copyright anyway.
Deep Kimchi
12-07-2006, 19:07
http://www.space.com/spacenews/archive05/galileoarch_010305.html
European Union Approves Military Access to Encrypted Galileo Signal
By PETER B. de SELDING
Space News Staff Writer
posted: 10 January 2005
02:38 pm ET
PARIS — British protests notwithstanding, the military forces of France and other European Union nations will be able to use Europe’s future encrypted satellite navigation signals as they see fit, European government officials said.
These officials also said that any attempt to export the encrypted signals from the Galileo navigation system outside Europe would need to be approved unanimously by the 25 European Union member nations.
European Union officials repeated that the most heavily encrypted Galileo signals, carried as part of the system’s Public Regulated Service (PRS), will be limited to European Union member nations.
China and India both have sought access to the PRS signals as part of their participation in the Galileo project. Both have been rebuffed, as would any other non-European nation.
One European Union Commission official said the controls on the export of PRS were firm. “We don’t intend to give access to PRS to anyone outside of Europe, and we have not done it so far,” this official said here Dec. 14 during a debate on Galileo and its U.S. equivalent, the GPS system, organized by the French International Relations Institute.
Pretty funny stuff.