[js1138]

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.

[Orbiting_Rosie's_Head]

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.

Wrong. Believing you have a right to own the public airwaves and jail people who play with radio reception is a disgusting crime against humanity. Slobbering after and defending such dirtbag criminals is the pinhead thing to do. It marks a moron serf who has been programmed to believe anything he is told. I suppose you would have thought King George's stamp act was cool. After all, it was the law, you know.

[IncPen]

OK, you've posed a legitimate question... Regarding the issue of children, I imagine criminal aspects of the law regarding pedophilia would cover such a circumstance. If not I suppose we'll all be wearing lead-lined undies.

On this same subject, since you seem to feel that the signals are not in the public domain, let me ask this:

If my neighbor sets out a garden sprinkler and his water falls on my lawn, what if I benefit from that water?

Further, what if I buy seeds and plant them. Is he entitled to recompense because I've 'converted his water'? Suppose he didn't pay for the water-- suppose he just collected it from his downspouts? Or, suppose he paid for city water. What then?

And further still, what obligation do I have to notify or pay him for converting his water into crops if he's letting it fall willy-nilly in my yard?

Do you see the point here?

[Orbiting_Rosie's_Head]

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.

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