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Probably. Then again anyone with a transmitting dish can be triangulated by the government body that doesn't like people doing that.

• kuschku 11y ago
  But satellite TV is used in tons of places, with most systems of the past decade also being able to transmit. People having a satellite dish pointed at a satellite there would be in the range of hundreds of millions alone in europe.
  • noselasd 11y ago
    Your TV dish is not transmitting. But the point is, that if some country decides the new internet via satellite to be illegal, it is _very_ easy for them to find people using it.
    • JoeAltmaier 11y ago
      Not true. Could be in of a van. Or hidden on a roof. Iraq had once forbidden TV satellite dishes; thousands were in use. A dish leaks very little energy except in the direction of the satellite. It could be astronomically unlikely anyone could detect its use unless they were line-of-sight between the dish and the satellite. And pointed in the right direction.
      • noselasd 11y ago
        And the reason they could hide those TV dishes under roofs is that they are not transmitting. If you want internet via satellite, they are transmitting, and while they are directional towards the satellite, there's enough signal going off in other direction sides making it not that hard to detect from the ground.
    • kuschku 11y ago
      The dish actually supports transmitting, in case we’d want to use it for satellite internet, but we haven’t used it for that, yet.