[Poohbah]

If it is broadcast onto your property, do you not have the right to use it?

If it is truly a broadcast, yes. However, DirecTV is not "broadcast."

Are you asserting that you have an absolute right to listen to your neighbor's encrypted wireless phone because you can detect the signal on your property?

[cinFLA]

Are you asserting that you have an absolute right to listen to your neighbor's encrypted wireless phone because you can detect the signal on your property?

I asserted nothing. I asked a question. Are you saying that you have NO rights to information that is deposited onto your property with the FULL knowledge that it is being deposited onto your property and the FULL knowledge that it may be listened to?

[cinFLA]

If it is truly a broadcast, yes. However, DirecTV is not "broadcast."

But it is.

[Sloth]

Are you asserting that you have an absolute right to listen to your neighbor's encrypted wireless phone because you can detect the signal on your property?

I'll assert that.

[longtermmemmory]

The airwaives are free. It is the descrambling code copyright that MIGHT be at issue. HOWEVER, this is not cable TV where you have to physically hook up a cable to someone's pole. Yes, police scanners used to pick up cell phones and there was NOTHING anyone could do since it was the airwaives. The solution was digital cellphones. (what next beathable air tax?)

[Chemist_Geek]

Are you asserting that you have an absolute right to listen to your neighbor's encrypted wireless phone because you can detect the signal on your property?

Until recently, that was the case. It used the be the law of the land that the airwaves were the common property of all, and anything anyone emitted over it was fair game for listening. One wasn't permitted to repeat that to others or use it, but one could observe one's property, the airwaves.

Breaking encription is a separate issue, and one which, IMHO, is morally wrong.

[New Horizon]

DirecTV is most certainly a broadcast. It may be an encrypted broadcast, but a broadcast just the same.

[PatrioticAmerican]

"Are you asserting that you have an absolute right to listen to your neighbor's encrypted wireless phone because you can detect the signal on your property?"

Actually, I do believe that you do.