Per post #12; the FCC has set aside certain bands for Police, Military, Emergency, Rescue and other uses. Using THESE frequencies is a Federal Offense. However, DirectTV is using PUBLIC bandwidth for commercial gain, then claiming that we (the public) do not have the right to monitor PUBLIC bandwidth, unless we pay them money to use equipment they SOLD (not leased, not loaned, but sold).
I would place a case of a automobile manufacturer who uses the Digital Mill. act to make it illegal to change the timing 'chip' in your car to alter your car's performance or economy. In both cases, you are modifying YOUR property, to YOUR benefit for PUBLIC resources by reprogramming a processor you own.
I may be totally wrong here, but isn't "receiving" an RF signal different than "listening/using" it? Aren't Dish and DirecTV arguing that you can receive the RF data at will, but not hack into it?
Per post #12; the FCC has set aside certain bands for Police, Military, Emergency, Rescue and other uses. Using THESE frequencies is a Federal Offense.So, in an extreme defense emergency, when the military needs some "public" bandwidth for communications, then you're saying that you have a legal right to decrypt the stuff and sell the access to the Chinese.