This paper attempts to explain that developing nations cannot control DBS (Direct Broadcasting Satellite) airwaves from violating their national sovereignty. They can neither jam them nor outlaw DBS altogether. What they can do is to minimize the spillover and propaganda carried by DBS. They can do this by technical and legal means. However, most of the technical means require developing nations to have their own DBS, either individually or on regional basis. And they might prove too costly for developing countries to use them. International law would help minimize international propaganda and even spillover. However, developing countries need to rally enough support to pass clearly-defined conventions regulating DBS and a powerful agency to enforce them. This paper has left out the many opposing points on issues such as right of reply, codes of conduct, prior consent, monitoring and enforcing agency, which have come up in the new world information order debates.
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