I rather suspect it's your idea that needs some work.
If you put something on my property without my permission and leave it there, and as I have suggested I ask you to remove it, by simple act of negligence it passes into my possession.
If you left it there, it's mine, Sparky.
Not at all -- my position is consistent with the court decisions on this matter, which is more than I can say for yours.
If you put something on my property without my permission and leave it there, and as I have suggested I ask you to remove it, by simple act of negligence it passes into my possession.
Ah, now you add further conditions to your original overly simplistic statement. So you *have* done some work on it as I suggested. Good for you.
Unfortunately, it still fails to meet the giggle test.
Are you suggesting that the satellite companies are "leaving" the signals for, say, last Tuesday's shows lying around on your lawn like litter?
No -- they are transient signals, which you wouldn't even know were present unless you went out of your way to build or buy a suitable receiver and acquired the means to break the encryption on the signal that was specifically placed there to *prevent* you from accessing copyrighted information which you haven't paid for.
Your quaint ideas about treating constitutionally copyrighted material as if it were a baseball left on your lawn are ridiculous, not to mention an empty selfish rationalization for breaking the law.
If you left it there, it's mine, Sparky.
You keep telling yourself that as the courts rule against you, maybe it'll bring you some type of comfort as you pay your fines.