To: cinFLA
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?
4 posted on
02/12/2003 12:33:31 PM PST by
Poohbah
(Beware the fury of a patient man -- John Dryden)
To: Poohbah
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?
8 posted on
02/12/2003 12:35:57 PM PST by
cinFLA
To: Poohbah
If it is truly a broadcast, yes. However, DirecTV is not "broadcast."But it is.
10 posted on
02/12/2003 12:38:53 PM PST by
cinFLA
To: Poohbah
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.
29 posted on
02/12/2003 1:15:14 PM PST by
Sloth
To: Poohbah
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?)
To: Poohbah
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.
110 posted on
02/12/2003 2:49:20 PM PST by
Chemist_Geek
("Drill, R&D, and conserve" should be our watchwords! Energy independence for America!)
To: Poohbah
DirecTV is most certainly a broadcast. It may be an encrypted broadcast, but a broadcast just the same.
138 posted on
02/12/2003 3:46:28 PM PST by
New Horizon
(Absolut on the rocks for me.)
To: Poohbah
"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.
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