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To: js1138
By the way, no has responded to my question about posting nude photos on the internet, taken through peoples' clothing using the infrared radiation they broadcast to my property as they walk past my house. They don't even bother to encrypt their broadcast. It's part of the electromagnetic spectrum, and its falling on my property, so what's to stop me?

Posting photos on the internet is not the same activity as decoding and watching a signal. If you have camera that takes nude photos through clothes and you look at those photos in the privacy of your own home, there is absolutely nothing at all stopping you. I personally would not do it, nor would I condone it. But it is not at all the same thing as receiveing a televsion braodcast. Posting on the internet is akin to re-broadcasting. Also, light reflected off someone's body is a circumstance beyond that person's control. It is not the same thing as DTV's intentional, but not unavoidable, action of broadcasting.

225 posted on 02/13/2003 10:08:27 AM PST by Orbiting_Rosie's_Head
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To: Orbiting_Rosie's_Head
light reflected off someone's body is a circumstance beyond that person's control.

No, it's not. We wear clothes to block the "visible" spectrum. One could make a case that failure to wear clothing that blocks IR is just as irresponsible as going naked.

My point is that the law only deals with a tiny percentage of lawbreaking. Society exists because most people follow, for the most part, the spirit of the law. Reading another person's broadcast when they have taken steps to prevent it is just a dirty, scummy thing to do. It marks a person as having an infantile sense of ethics.

Even if it were "legal" in the sense of being unenforceable.

233 posted on 02/13/2003 11:17:14 AM PST by js1138
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